knoppix 3.4 hd install not printing

[Anton Markov]

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Hi Chris,

It looks like cupsd is not running on your system. Try manually starting
it by executing "cupsd" as root, and see if it runs. If there are no
errors, try opening a browser and going to "http://localhost:631" to
access the Cups web-based configuration. If it works, you can use that
to set up without using the KDE printer configuration (if you have to).

Chris Aitken wrote:
> I have installed knoppix 3.4 to my hard drive. Looks like the answer to
> my prayers (i.e. sound works out-of-the-box). There are not many choices
> when installing to the hard drive (via sudo knoppix-installer) so I
> couldn't choose to install cups. However, the  installer did advise that
> "kdm cupsysd will start with each boot". Alas, I can't print.
>
> When I open 'Configure-Printing Manager' I get 'Initializing Manager..'
> then:
>
> Error - KDE Control Module
> Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received for manager.
> Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server correctly
> installed and is running. Error: conection refused.
>
> Trying to restart the Print Server I get:
>
> Error - KDE Control Module
> Unable to restart print server. Error message received for manager:
> Unable to find a running CUPS server.
>
> Any ideas for steps to troubleshoot this? I read the man page for cupsd
> -- it's short and no help for this. It took me a few days to get
> registered on the Agnula users list -- now I'm switching to knoppix live
> 3.4 (hard disk install) so I'll hunt for a  users list for that OS. I
> would, however, like to print something tonight to my epson stylus c84
> if I can.

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Anton Markov <("anton" + "@" + "truxtar" + "." + "com")>

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