Unable to print a file due to "client-error-not-possible" or "too many jobs" in RHEL
Issue
- Getting an error "
lp: Unable to print a file: client-error-not-possible
" when attempting to print a file from the command line using "lpr filename
" in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. - Printing halted with error "
/usr/bin/lpr: Too many active jobs
" -
We noticed that we have an issue with printing via CUPS software. We issue a lot of print jobs every night but on every Friday we are missing some prints. We found that in the CUPS
error_log
file we are receiving following messages:Returning IPP client-error-not-possible for Create-Job (ipp://localhost:631/printers/printq) from localhost
-
Does
MaxJobs
control the maximum number of simultaneous jobs, or is it how many job files are saved whenPreserveJobFiles
is on? - We are facing an issue "Too many active jobs" error from the printers in our production servers. So we are unable to give a print from the servers.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8
- Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)
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