Undead print job

[Michael Anthony Maibaum]

On 23 Jan 2007, at 20:07, Scott Ribe wrote:

> I've got a print job that won't go away. It keeps printing over and  
> over. If
> I delete it, it immediately comes back. If I stop jobs and then  
> delete it,
> it appears to go away, but as soon as I start jobs, it pops back in.
> Sometimes if I delete it multiple times in a row while jobs are  
> started, it
> appears to go away, but then comes back.
>
> This is all in the printer queue UI. It's an HP LJ1022, and it's  
> shared.
>
> Any hints on how to find the underlying files so I can sudo rm them?
>

This may not be hugely important in the context of a drive on the way  
out but I've had this problem on a number of occasions (with ok  
drives) and the only way to get rid of the print job I've found is to  
delete the queue and recreate it.

I'm sure there is an underlying file/files somewhere but even  
deleting files in the spool directories doesn't seem to help..

cheers

Michael