/var/spool/cups/tmp filling up

[Michael Pope]

On one of my debian servers I get a recurring large file in the
/var/spool/cups/tmp file (279MB) every day at 7:35am, this has amounted
to 3.9GB and is growing everyday.

Can I safely remove these files?
How do I find out what is causing the problem?

I've had a look at my print queue and there is nothing in there. All the
files start with gs_ eg: gs_V4iP4K, if I have a look at one it looks
like postscript code.

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Michael

[Darren Wurf]

> if I have a look at one it looks like postscript code.
>

What happens when you run ps2pdf on it?

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Darren

[Michael Pope]

On Mon 03 Mar 2014 10:22:00 EST, Darren Wurf wrote:
>> if I have a look at one it looks like postscript code.
>>
>
> What happens when you run ps2pdf on it?
>

$ ps2pdf gs_mHSl6I
Error: /undefined in J
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1910 1 3
%oparray_pop 1909 1 3 %oparray_pop 1893 1 3
%oparray_pop 1787 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval--
%errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1164/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:77/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 1
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

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[Darren Wurf]

That's all I've got :) hopefully someone else can be more helpful!

Darren

[Michael Pope]

Loaded up http://localhost:631 and found 3 jobs where pending for the
last month on a printer which has been removed from the network. These
didn't show up in other print job tools (lpq & through the
system-config-printer). I've removed these jobs and restarted cups, so
now I'll see what happens tomorrow morning at 7:35am.

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Michael

[Michael Pope]

This problem is fixed by my last actions

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Michael