Printer lockup (FC4)

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu May 10 09:11:07 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I sent a large print job to my file/print server, but unfortunately I had
> > a paper jam after page 1.  Since then I have not been able to print
> > anything to that printer.  The localhost:631 interface shows the printer
> > as stopped, but I am not allowed to re-start it, despite the fact that I
> > entered root's password.
> >
> > Is there any way out of this, or will I have to remove the printer and
> > re-install it?
> >
> > Anne
>
> Have you tried lprm to remove the print file from the printer's queue?
>
I'd removed the print job,  no problem with that, but the printer 
remains 'stopped' and cannot be re-started, because root doesn't have the 
permission to do that!

Anne
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