[wplug] Too busy printing?
Michael P. O Connor
mpop at mikeoconnor.net
Mon May 23 13:23:42 EDT 2005
is it posable the hard drive controler could be bad?? if it is bad that
could be what killed the last hard drive (and would kill this drive)
> A month ago our home PC mercifully committed harddrive suicide and
took its
> M$ operating system with it. A new drive and Fedora Core 3 got us
back up
> and running quickly. Everything has worked great for a few weeks.
The wife
> quickly adapted to FireFox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice.
>
> Then this weekend we attempted to print an email attachment (from
Borders).
> It printed fine. And then it printed again. And then the PC just started
> banging away at the harddrive. I could not get control to find out
what was
> running. I had to turn the PC off and reboot. A couple of seconds after
> logging back in as the user the printer prints the email and lock-up.
If I
> am quick I can get a terminal window open which prevents the harddrive
> accesses. The printer queue was empty and I could not identify any task
> that would cause this problem. I un-installed the printer and it
appears to
> be o.k. now.
>
> Other than the "lp" commands is there anyway of tracking what the
printer is
> doing? If the PC is busy 100% on some task is there a way to break the
> operation, equivalent to the three finger salute? I want to reinstall the
> printer but am concerned that it will start up this cycle again.
>
> -laweber
>
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Michael P. O'Connor
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