To print on antiX 17

[Member Girafenaine]

Hello,

I am unable to print. I have installed antiX17 32b on a live USB, base install.

I installed cups with synaptic.

When I try to get the web printing manager on localhost:631, I get the cups 2.2.1 page, but no link works. My browser (firefox) answers : Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at localhost:631.or”

The lpinfo -v command returns : “mauvais descripteur de fichier” in french, something like “bad file descriptor”

Can anyone give a hand ?

Girafenaine

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[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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its very likely that the cupsd daemon is not running. by default, the live-USB system contains the “disable=lx” boot code, which prevents certain apps from starting. IIRC, cupsd is one of those apps.

[Moderator caprea]

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These applications are missing on base
https://antixlinux.com/applications-on-antix-full-but-not-included-on-antix-base/

So it’s probably not enough to install cups.

Maybe helps
sudo apt-get install cups cups-filters system-config-printer system-config-printer-udev printer-driver-gutenprint

If your printer is a hp-printer you also need
sudo apt-get install hplip printer-driver-hpijs

If your printer has an integrated scanner
sudo apt-get install sane-utils simple-scan libsane-hpaio libsane

Normaly you should be able to start cups on a live-system with
sudo service cups start

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by caprea.

[Member Girafenaine]

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Hello,

Thank you very much to both of you !

1. For cups, the service was not started. The sudo service cups start command helped. How can I make the service always on ? or is it a bad idea ?
I will now install my printer, I hope I will get it work, perhaps I will need drivers.

2. Thank you for the link to the “base vs core” packages, I was looking for this information. I installed antiX-base only because of the size of a CD… but I have now added a lot of packages much more like antiX-full.

Girafenaine

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dolphin_oracle wrote:

by default, the live-USB system contains the “disable=lx” boot code, which prevents certain apps from starting. IIRC, cupsd is one of those apps.

^—– yes, and that (disable=lx by default) has tripped me up occassionally

for reference:
On a live system, you can review the list (legend?) of disable= codes and associated services
sudo cat /live/etc/init.d/live-disable-services

Can also review the list online https://gitlab.com/antiX-Linux/Live-initrd-1/blob/master/etc/init.d/live-disable-services
(the exact items listed are subject to change, across releases)

LEAN_SERVICES ( these are disabled when bootline specifies disable=l )
(added for clarity after proofreading: that’s a lowercase “L”, above)

acpi-fakekey
acpi-support
bluetooth
bootlogs
cpufrequtils
cron
cups
irqbalance
loadcpufreq
nfs-common
rpcbind
rsync
saned
smartmontools
ssh
stop-bootlogd
sudo

XTRA_LEAN_SERVICES ( these are disabled when bootline specifies disable=x )

bootlogd
cryptdisks
cryptdisks-early
dns-clean
hdparm
hwclock.sh
hwclockfirst.sh
ifupdown-clean
lm-sensors
lvm2
mountnfs-bootclean.sh
mountoverflowtmp
nfs-common
pcmciautils
policykit
pppd-dns
ufw
urandom

MEAN_SERVICES ( these are disabled when bootline specifies disable=m )

avahi-daemon
dnsmasq
ifplugd
mountnfs-bootclean.sh
mountnfs.sh
network-manager
networking
nfs-common
nfs-kernel-server
ntp
pppd-dns
resolvconf
rpcbind
smbd
ufw

[Member Girafenaine]

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Hello Dolphin_oracle and Skidoo,

Thank you very much for your answers.

Is it safe or useful to enable these services by modifying the boot option ?

Girafenaine

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Girafenaine.

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