[cups.general] cancelled print requests stays in the lpstat

[Michael Sweet]

On Jan 28, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Sue Toeppler wrote:
> Running cups1.4.6.
> A print request was printing.  Issued a cancel command:
> cancel printrequestname
> After printing a few more pages, it did stop but stayed in the queue of jobs showin in the lpstat -t.
> 
> smallroom-101           root            300032   Fri 28 Jan 2011 10:22:17 AM CST
> 
> If try to cancel again, get this:
> 
> cancel: cancel-job failed: Job #101 is already canceled - can't cancel.
> 
> How can I get this out of the queue?


It should go away after a little while (current kill timeout is 30 seconds IIRC), but if not just find the backend process (the name will be the device-uri of the printer) and kill it.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair