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disciple

A couple of other people have reported this problem, but I haven't seen a solution. When I try to delete a print job using the cups web interface, I get the message

smokey01 · Posted: Wed 18 Feb 2009, 17:48 Post subject:

disciple,

I haven't manage to get this to work in CUPS either but this works.

To delete all print jobs from the console type "lprm -"

Not sure if this does though.

To delete a particular job type "cancel(1) for job number 1.

disciple · Posted: Thu 19 Feb 2009, 00:31 Post subject:

So it looks like a bug...
The CUPS dotpup package that we used to use by Pakt or someone worked fine Sad

I wonder if this patch would fix it http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2004/12/31/linux

Or maybe it is this. I'm not at home ATM, so I can't check if that section is in the config file...

disciple · Posted: Fri 20 Feb 2009, 21:57 Post subject:

Yes, that's the problem - stupid design Smile

You can cancel jobs if you add

disciple · Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 03:12 Post subject:

Darn - no, leafpad doesn't seem to be able to print now... what's wrong with these CUPS people?

vtpup · Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 21:16 Post subject:

Yup, wrestling with the same problem here.

vtpup · Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 22:33 Post subject:

Disciple, what do you think about this:

disciple · Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 22:51 Post subject:

Yes, I did notice that, but I don't think it is connected with our problem.

The old cups dotpup worked perfectly, and had the same cupsd.conf as in Puppy 4.x, so I'm guessing it had that patch applied to fix this.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 23:17 Post subject:

try this
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=15331
Just install it, then in the menu you'll have 2 new frontends for cups, One will allow you to monitor jobs, cancel current, cancel all jobs etc.

Menu/System/GTKLP
Menu/System/GTKLPQ
ttuuxxx

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1552 Location: florida

I patched cups-1.1.23 to fix that. A pet package is here:

http://puppylinux.asia/tpp/kirk/cups-1.1.23p.pet

Try it booting up ram only and installing it. Just in case your dog explodes or something else horrible happens Smile

vtpup · Posted: Sun 22 Feb 2009, 01:04 Post subject:

Thanks for the help, both of you. But I'm always curious about why something is wrong before just applying a patch. Can you tell me?

Obviously it is trying to authenticate when it shouldn't. I've tried AuthType=None, and AuthClass=Anonymous in every Location, each alone, and both together, with no effect. I've also tried to add location /jobs and used both, again with no effect. every time I try something new I just get in Cups error log:

vtpup · Posted: Sun 22 Feb 2009, 01:16 Post subject:

Well, here's a workaround that seems simpler than the web interface.

If you want to cancel job number 1, just type:

disciple · Posted: Sun 22 Feb 2009, 03:11 Post subject:

vtpup · Posted: Sun 22 Feb 2009, 13:38 Post subject:

Thanks for the reference, Disciple, I see it now, under the "here" in your post which is a bug report.

Actually the report was closed because the bug was supposedly fixed in Cups 1.20.

But we seem to have it here in a later version, so I'm wondering if they did solve it, but inadvertently re-enabled it in this version? What version in the dotpup worked?

Unfortunately, because the issue is closed, no further comments can be added to this particular issue.

disciple · Posted: Sun 22 Feb 2009, 22:53 Post subject:

That was a debian bug report - the way I read it the bug was fixed in Debian's Cups package, not in the upstream CUPS.