[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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