Printing problem on FC13

fred smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Fri Jul 2 17:06:30 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 03:19:28PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 09:15 -0400, fred smith wrote:
> > however on F13 I couldn't make it work that way. the job would be put in
> > the queue and there it would sit. I'd find the printer disabled, re-enable
> > it and it would be disabled again. try the print troubleshooter and after
> > entering the root password twice and clicking a few times it would tell me
> > that the problem is because the printer was disabled. re-enable it and 
> > it just gets disabled AGAIN.
> 
> If you have jobs in the queue, and there is some problem with one of the
> filters, each time you enable it the next job will fail and cause it to
> become disabled.
> 
> The way around that is to clear out *all* the jobs in the queue.  Cancel
> them all.
> 
> After that, running the troubleshooter should get you enough information
> to report a bug.
> 
> I know that you now have your printer working, but I'd be very grateful
> if you could re-visit this and have another go at getting
> troubleshooting information about this problem.

Tim:

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll see if I can find a little bit of time
to re-try that over the long weekend. If I'm successful I'll post here
what I see (and if I see anything reproducible I'll put in a Bugzilla
too.)

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