Major printing problem.

Baldorg · 03-21-2004, 01:18 PM

Since today, printing has worked marvelously with my USB Lexmark Z 32. But something had to go wrong. I tried to print from konqueror, it only partially printed, and I could close the printer manually ( Button on top of it). Now, I have printing programs that peg my cpu at 100% usage :

11764 ? 00:00:00 foomatic-rip
11786 ? 00:00:00 foomatic-rip
11787 ? 00:00:00 foomatic-rip
11788 ? 00:00:00 sh
11789 ? 00:00:00 gs
11791 ? 00:00:00 sh
11792 ? 00:00:00 cat

11611 lp 20 0 10648 10m 3556 R 72.3 4.2 0:04.92 gs

I unplugged my printer and they still are there. I use the default mandrake open source drivers, I guess. And I can't cancel jobs trough WWW CUPS Admin tool because I get a client-error-forbidden.

How can I kill these jobs and stop those print processes?

Baldorg · 03-21-2004, 01:21 PM

I cancelled the printer trough www CUPS admin tool. Has this happened to anybody?

bigrigdriver · 03-21-2004, 08:58 PM

I'm not certain this will work, but you could try killing the cupsd process with the command 'kill <pid number>'. To get the process id number (pid), open a terminal and issue the command 'top', without quotes. That will show you all currently running processes. The number in the left hand column is the pid. Find the number for cupsd and kill the process. Then restart cupsd and check whether or not that removes the print jobs in que. You should also be able to kill any outstanding print jobs with the kill command if stopping and restarting cupsd doesn't work.

chrislynch · 01-13-2006, 05:05 PM

I had a similar problem with the Z65 connected on USB.

I've found that I am able to cancel and hold the jobs without getting the client error (described above), via the WWW interface, if I place the printer into a class.

To do this, click "Classes", add a class, give it any old name (there is a limit of 127 characters for the first two fields together, I think) and put your printer in it. Worked for me!

kevinllewis · 02-26-2006, 12:33 PM

Hi.

Running Mandrake 10.2. Cups is installed, but not working right. In cups I can see the host, but cannot see the printer. I do see the ShareDocs on the host. Host is running XP Pro. Printer is an hp laserjet III. Printer is shared and network services has been added for UNIX printing.

I have tried LPR.LPD, TCP/IP, and Cups, and not successful.

My Mandrake machine is an IBM ThinkPad 390E. I have run all of the updates.

Any suggestions?