Thanks for the input and getting my printer under control. The use of: lpq -a, and lprm (job number) worked perfectly. I now have that print job killed and things are back to normal. Thanks to all who have helped me with this problem. On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 08:14 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 08:31 -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 23:11 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > > > On 7/18/05, Ted Gervais <ve1drg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I have finally got my printer working in FC4 (DeskJet895Cxi). > > > > Now I can't stop it from working. > > > > > > > > I have a print job in its queue and I can't kill it. It is a large > > > > document (100 pages) and I need to remove it from the queue. No luck so > > > > far. > > > > > > > > I have gone to the Control Center and tried to stop the 'jobs' that were > > > > listed there, and while in there as a user I got the following message > > > > when I tried to remove the job: > > > > > > > > Unable to perform action "remove" on selected jobs. Error received from > > > > manager. > > > > Execution of lpm failed." > > > > > > > > And if I went into Aministrator Mode I see there are no jobs, but the > > > > printer keeps printing?? > > > > > > > > How do I get out of this situation? There has to be a way to kill print > > > > jobs??? > > > > > > > > > > Try using the CUPS web utility ( http://localhost:631 ) or just power > > > off the printer if the job has already been buffered. > > > > > > > I tried turning off the printer and the computer. Things still want to > > print. I then went to localhsot:631 and killed that job but it didn't > > work: I get this message: > > > > " client-error-forbidden" > > > > Now what do I do. It seems like a monster is after me. > > > > > The command line is your friend. You must be either the user who sent > the job to the printer or root to do this. > > "lpq -a" to list the print job numbers > "lprm <job number>" to kill the job. > > Note that (for me at least) a job currently being printed must have the > printer active to use the lprm command. >
