Printer lockup (FC4)

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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!
Here is an abstract from the man lpadmin page. Maybe that info is
relevant to your problem.

 -E
            Enables the printer and accepts jobs; this is the same as
running
            the accept(8) or cupsaccept(8) and enable(8) or
cupsenable(8) programs on the printer.


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Aaron Konstam tel: (210) 656-0355 akonstam at sbcglobal.net