Laptop fell asleep during printing, now 3 jobs are stuck

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First, why is a laptop allowed to fall asleep when there’s still jobs in the print queue?

Second, I waited and nothing happens (first job just says “processing”) and the pause buttons animate but otherwise also do nothing in the Printer panel in Settings.

2

Having the laptop fall asleep during printing apparently broke something so severely that I noticed that a second printer of the same model popped up in the settings, but also refused to print.

In the end, I had to remove both printers from the settings and re-add it, and restart all jobs.

I think Gnome should really handle print queues & power settings better…

3

GNOME only presents what CUPS (the print server) provides: GNOME does not control the print queue, or when it gets processed.

4

Can you try this in cupsd.conf ?

ErrorPolicy retry-job

CUPS is quite an old piece of software, not sure it integrates well with session managers for staying awake…