Print file sent, waiting for printer to finish...never goes away

[Helge Blischke]

"Pat H. Minatra" wrote:
> 
> > "Pat H. Minatra" wrote:
> > >
> > > We have just brought up a Linux Red Had 4.0 server using CUPS v.1.1.22 and are having a slight problem in that several of the print queues will have the following information AFTER printing to them:
> > >
> > > Print file sent, waiting for printer to finish...
> > >
> > > This information is gotten by using the following command:
> > >
> > > lpstat -t | grep printer | more
> > >
> > > The ONLY way I have been able to make this go away is by issuing the following two commands:
> > >
> > > /usr/bin/disable AWDLT2
> > > And then
> > > /usr/bin/enable AWDLT2
> > >
> > > (where AWDLT2 is my print queue name).
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?
> > >
> > > I have been unable to track anything down via the CUPS website or other searches.
> > >
> > > Thank you for any help.  Please feel free to respond to my email address of pminatra at hsutx.edu.
> > >
> > > Thanks again.  Pat H. Minatra  02.17.06
> >
> > This message comes from the socket backend and indicates that the socket shutdown (which is
> > initiated by the backend) did not succeed within, I think, 90 seconds. I suspect that the printer
> > does not behave soundly.
> >
> > As a workaround, you may use a backend wrapper script (see linuxprinting.org; I've forgotten the
> > name of this script).
> >
> > Helge
> >
> 
> Thank you Helge, I appreciate your help.
> 
> I downloaded the BEH from http://www.linuxprinting.org/beh.html and installed as per instructions and documentation.
> 
> I have no improvement in my situation as the queues still give the same messages and I have 'random' queues go down which I had hoped would stop this and it did not.
> 
> I would like to see if any further suggestions or solutions might be possible.
> 
> Thank you so much.
> 
> Pat H. Minatra

In this case, you should either
a) modify the socket backend accordingly, 
or
b) from the wrapper, beh, kill the original backend after a certain time.

Helge


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