Waiting for job to complete...

[Michael Sweet]

Greg Jones wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we are currently in the process of migrating our production system from Unixware to RHEL v4 which is running CUPS cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.8.
> 
> While everthing is working, as far as I can tell, I noticed the following when using the lpstat -t command.
> 
> device for laser_main: socket://laser_main:9100
> printer laser_main is idle.  enabled since Jan 01 00:00
>         Print file sent, waiting for printer to finish...
> 
> 
> If I change the interface URI to ipp then the message changes to "Waiting for job to complete...".
> 
> The jobs are been printed correctly but I am curious what is going on. Management noticed the message and want an explanation and all I can find out is that the printer is not telling the cups server that its finished.
> 
> How can I fix this?

This is an issue with the IPP backend not clearing the message at
the end.  You can update to 1.1.23 or 1.2 (looks like next week) to
get rid of this message.

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