[ale] the printer job that wouldn't die

[Jim Philips]

I am running CUPS on KDE. This isn't the first time this has happened to me. I 
start a print job and something goes wrong. The printer starts spitting out 
pages with a single line of characters and nothing else. If I try to kill the 
job, there doesn't seem to be anything to kill. I can stop the printer. But 
when it starts again, the pages start spitting out the same way. If I type 
lprm as root, I get:

lprm: Unable to cancel job(s)!

If I try lpq, it doesn't report any jobs in the queue, so there is nothing I 
can kill. I tried killing cupsd. When it starts again, the pages start 
spitting out again. The only thing I know to do is to remove the printer and 
reinstall it. Is there any way I can just find this job and kill it?