[ale] sudden printer headache

[Jim Kinney]

AH! Check printer setting for how to handle errors. Seems the often default
is to disable printing instead of abort job.


On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 1:26 PM, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

> On Saturday 03 July 2010 12:57:40 Paul Cartwright wrote (in part):
>
> > was the printer turned on when you rebooted? sometimes it gets stuck in
> >  a state that cups doesn't like..
> > you might try adding it again as a new printer, and see if that helps.
> >
>
> Problem solved.
>
> On Paul's suggestion I ran lpstat -t, which reported that the printer was
> disabled. WTF  It was working fine two weeks ago when I turned things
> off.
> This is a FC11 box, using KDE. Went to Applications>Administration>
> Printing.  Lo and behold, the printer was not "Enabled."  Checked the
> appropriate box in the GUI and now print jobs are not hanging in the queue.
>
> Sean
>
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