Perpetually 'Pending' job

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Fri Oct 29 09:10:50 PDT 2010


John A.  Murdie wrote:

> Something I don't recall seeing before (with CUPS 1.4.4): a job which is
> perpetually marked as 'Pending' in the Web display, with 'Hold job',
> 'Cancel job' and 'Move job' buttons next to it. Other documents sent to
> the queue just print as usual!
> 
> I've tried 'Hold job'-ing it and then 'Resume job'-ing it, and I have also
> tried 'Pause printer' and then 'Resume printer'. I don't want to try 'Move
> job', as then the user won't be able to find the printed output.
> 
> Any ideas?

Did you look into the error_log? Perhaps you could switch to debug-logging 
and, try to reprint the job and then look into the error_log to see what has 
happened.

Helge





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