Can't reprint a print job - it is stuck in the print queue as "pending" forever

[michaelrsweet]

Version: 1.2.3
CUPS.org User: cupser7882

Is the following a programming "bug" on CUPS 1.2.3 ? Will it be fixed on CUPS 1.3?

Please read:

The PreserveJobFiles has been flagged "Yes" in the cupsd.config on /etc/cups to retain print jobs after they were printed.

Now on the CUPS Web page (127.0.0.1:631), a completed print job is chosen to be printed again.

However, once the "Restart Job" button is pressed on the Web menu (done by jobs.cgi??), the screen shows "Job: xyz has been restarted", but actually the job does not re-print... the restarted print job file gets stuck in the print queue which shows the job is pending forever and it never gets released to the printer.

How all other print jobs print perfectly except for the restarted print jobs (i.e. those jobs that have been printed at least once). All restarted print jobs are "skipped" by CUPS and never get printed but the print jobs are shown as "Pending" the CUPS Web menu display.

It seems to me: all re-started print jobs cannot be printed even though they have been thrown back into the print queue for re-printing and there are no other "new" print jobs on the print queue.

My remedy: The restarted print job that is pending on the print queue can only be printed out again when cupsd demon is restarted.

For comparison, I used CUPS v1.1.2 before, the print jobs reprint function worked perfectly. Once I upgraded to v1.2.3, the reprint function has not worked correctly ever since. I do not how to fix it...

Another minor thing is:

The CUPS Web interface shows the no. of pages of a print job which has been reprinted x number of times is equal to: x times the original no. of pages of the print job (when it was FIRST printed).

So the no. of pages of the print job get multiplied by how many times the print job was re-printed. i.e. If the print job is 10 pages, if it is re-printed 50 times, the CUPS will show that print job has 500 pages! I don't know if it is a bug or just a new way to show a print job that has been in fact reprinted many times.

I use the following to install and run CUPS 1.2.3:

OS Platform: Mac OS X 10.4.7 Machine: iMac G3 Printer: HP OfficeJet 4110 Connection: USB 1.1 Occurrence: Repeatable

Request: Can you fix the above two "bugs"?

Thanks for reading!

[michaelrsweet]

CUPS.org User: mike

The job is not getting re-added to the active jobs list; this will be fixed in CUPS 1.2.4.

WRT the number of pages, the job-media-sheets-completed attribute reflects the number of printed pages (including copies and reprints) and not the number of pages in the document.

[michaelrsweet]

CUPS.org User: mike

Fixed in Subversion repository.