Lexmark Z25/CUPS - Printing Stalled
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For me the news is actually more good than bad:
1) With a link from mepislovers I was able to successfully install my Lexmark Z25 printer.
2)And it has successfully printed dozens of print jobs this evening.
But, no more. Here is the scenario. I am running SimplyMepis 3.3.1-1 on an HP/Celeron system. I am using the CUPS system for handling my printing. When I go into control center and view my printer, it says that it is currently processing a print job, and has 10 other jobs queued. I've tried stopping and starting the physical printer with no success. I've also tried stopping and restarting the printer under the control center, also without luck. Finally I've restarted cups, but again no printing. I would consider restarting my computer, but I really do NOT want to lose those print jobs.
Any ideas come to mind?
TIA, Steve Graham
Unfortunately, no printing
Posts: 79
Thanks for responding so quickly. I did as you suggested and it seems that the system simply chose the next job to be active, although nothing is printing yet. See below.
It just occurred to me that perhaps there is another task which is contending for or already owns the USB port to which the printer is attached. The following message from CUPS made me think that:
Description: LEXMARK Z35
Location:
Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
"USB printer is busy; will retry in 5 seconds..."
Device URI: usb://Lexmark/Z25-Z35
The printer is very unbusy. Any ideas?
Steve
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root@1[mikey]# lpq
LexmarkZ25 is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size
active mikey 39 (stdin) 63488 bytes
1st mikey 40 (stdin) 51200 bytes
2nd root 41 44C35.txt 620544 bytes
3rd mikey 42 (stdin) 38912 bytes
4th mikey 43 (stdin) 225280 bytes
5th mikey 44 (stdin) 64512 bytes
6th mikey 45 (stdin) 62464 bytes
7th mikey 46 (stdin) 41984 bytes
8th mikey 47 (stdin) 40960 bytes
9th mikey 48 (stdin) 68608 bytes
root@1[mikey]# man cancel
Reformatting cancel(1), please wait...
root@1[mikey]# cancel 39
root@1[mikey]# lpq
LexmarkZ25 is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size
active mikey 40 (stdin) 51200 bytes
1st root 41 44C35.txt 620544 bytes
2nd mikey 42 (stdin) 38912 bytes
3rd mikey 43 (stdin) 225280 bytes
4th mikey 44 (stdin) 64512 bytes
5th mikey 45 (stdin) 62464 bytes
6th mikey 46 (stdin) 41984 bytes
7th mikey 47 (stdin) 40960 bytes
8th mikey 48 (stdin) 68608 bytes
Voila
Posts: 79
I had not wanted to reboot because I was afraid of losing my print jobs. Then I realized that they were stored as files on the system, so that should not be a problem. So, I rebooted and by the time the kds window appeared I was greeted with the beautiful sound of printing once more. Thanks.
Steve
command line
Posts: 4864
assume one print job is jamming the system
open a konsole
type lpq [enter]
this gives you a list of current print jobs
they should be numbered then
cancel idxxx [enter]
should cancel the top one and leave the rest
you should be able to get more info out of the system to tell you why it is jamming the system, this is the advantage of the command line