[lug] CUPS question

[Zan Lynx]

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:14 -0600, Bear Giles wrote:
> I've been setting up a color laserjet printer today (review probably to 
> follow) and have been having problems with CUPS.  I eventually thought 
> to verify that everything had stopped when I shut down the CUPS 
> system... and discovered that there were three daemons hanging around.  
> (And probably interfering with subsequent attempts to reconfigure the 
> print drivers -- I haven't been able to get anything to the printer in 
> over an hour.)
> 
> Even kill -9 won't kill them.
> 
> My first, second and third gut reaction is to wipe CUPS off the earth.  
> Or at least off my system.
> 
> But I wanted feedback from the community.  I know that many people think 
> that CUPS is much better than LPRng, but I'm underwhelmed to say the least.

If kill -9 won't kill them and "ps xa" shows them in a D state (a T
state is frozen from ptrace and is a different problem.  A Z state won't
kill either, its already dead.), your problems are not CUPS, its your
kernel.  Whatever device those daemons are accessing is frozen up.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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