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Holing print job crashes machine???

root

2004-12-16, 6:22 pm

Help!

We are having a wierd problem in ES 3.0. We can reproduce this on any
machine running ES or AS 3.0.

lp -i <printjobID> -H hold

This SHOULD hold the printjob indefinately. However, what it does is that it
crashes cups and makes the "C0000x" file huge, growing constantly until it
crashes the whole machine. Basically, when investigating the "C0000x" file,
it seems it puts the hold command in a loop into the file, making it grow.

This same problem occurs when not holding it indefinately but for a specific
time (lp -i <ID> -H hh:mm).

Interestingly, when we click the "hold job" button in the cups webinterface,
it seems to work just fine without any problems.

Anyone ever seen this before??

Thanks!

Joe