Re: HELP PLEASE!! Can't control CUPS??? WTF??

From: John McC (mccjohn_at_linux.local)
Date: 01/24/04 

Date: 24 Jan 2004 14:46:29 -0600

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:44:33 +0000, me wrote:

> Suse 9.0 Professional using KDE (all up-to-date) kernel 2.4.X
> I've got bad print jobs que'd up in cups and I can NOT kill them.
> When I go to cups as localhost:631/admin and try to log in as administrator
> or root or ANYONE at all it will NOT let me in and I can NOT kill the print
> jobs, I get "client-error-forbidden"..
>
> It will not take any password or username that I give it.
> I've removed CUPS through Yast and deleted the cups directories where ever I
> could find them on the system then reinstalled.
>
> NOTHING that I do will give me full control of CUPS again.
>
> I can print but when it screws up then I'm screwed. I have to let the
> printer spew hundreds of bad pages (thinking it's a postscript printer when
> it's not) until the job clears out of the que on it's on.
>
> This sucks. I mean sucks bad. I have a dozens and dozens of laser printers
> and big plotters that I have to test and when they don't work right I am
> screwed...
>
> I've GOT to get control of cups again, I even tried the KDE printing manager
> and it won't let me kill jobs there either...
> I get this from the print manager,
>
> "Unable to perform action "Remove" on selected jobs. Error received from
> manager:
> You don't have access to the requested resource."
>
>
> Well no shit Sherlock...
>
> HELP!!!

I've had problems printing in SuSE 9.0 Professional too. I usually have
to go into "KJobViewer" and delete the print job, unplug the printer USB
cable, go into Yast and remove the printer, plug the USB cable back in,
reinstall the printer in Yast and start the print job again. This
rediculous procedure takes time and is annoying. The printer
(Samsung ML1210 ) works perfectly in Windows. And it starts out perfectly
in SuSE too, but stops after three or four print jobs. Reinstalling SuSE
Linux from scratch doesn't help. Something is broken.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Persistent Cups process
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  • Re: HELP PLEASE!! Cant control CUPS??? WTF??
    ... >> I've got bad print jobs que'd up in cups and I can NOT kill them. ... >> NOTHING that I do will give me full control of CUPS again. ... > I've had problems printing in SuSE 9.0 Professional too. ...
    (alt.os.linux.suse)
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