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Dud · Joined: 04 Jun 2011 Posts: 14

Attempting to configure CUPS by either gui route fails with:

The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:631

/usr/share/doc/cups/ appears to be incomplete as well.

Ideas?

Dud · Joined: 04 Jun 2011 Posts: 14

Oops, this was meant to go to the precise thread - so read Puppy version as Precise Puppy 5.4. Might as well leave it here pro-tem.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 25 Oct 2012, 14:29 Post subject:

Works for me. How are you booting? From the Live CD or from an install?

What other stuff have you installed?

Dud · Joined: 04 Jun 2011 Posts: 14

Live CD

Vanilla, the first thing I've tried to configure. I've just noticed that localhost is unreachable* so I'll take a look at the hosts file. I'm posting from the machine in question btw so mostly it just works.

*Edit: Well, it pings OK.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 25 Oct 2012, 15:30 Post subject:

I would boot again off the Live CD. At the short initial pause, type the boot option "puppy pfix=ram". Then try the CUPS wizard again.

Dud · Joined: 04 Jun 2011 Posts: 14

OK, that worked and it survived a fresh save and reboot.

Ta.

I wonder why ..?

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5169 Location: Finland

You might have installed from the PPM or possibly from outside some .deb which has modified some permissions in CUPS needed files. There are certain files which need to have right user:group names that the CUPS works.

Maybe some browser .deb ? They are famous of braking Puppy CUPS.