Re: lp1 out of paper

[Peter Ross <petdr@cs.mu.OZ.AU>]

On 11-Sep-1999, Seth R Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu> wrote:
> My /var/log/messages file has some 36000 entries like this in the last few
> days. (Well, 6000 some messages saying this message has repeated four to six
> times..)
> 
> Sep  5 23:47:33 amidala kernel: lp1 out of paper
> 
> I haven't gotten the lpd system setup yet... will this go away when I setup
> lpd properly (I think I am using lprng. :)
> 
I used to get this error message as well, for me it was because my print
queue wasn't empty.

Check your print queue using:

    lpq

then remove the jobs from it using

    lprm <job number>

Pete.