Bug#865065: cups: Print Service Not Available -- debian-live-9.0.0-amd64-gnome
tags 865065 - moreinfo
reassign 865065 live-build
thanks
(For reasons I do not understand, your previous mails have not made it
to the bug record. I expect they will turn up in time).
On Mon 26 Jun 2017 at 21:33:23 -0600, Brian Holaday wrote:
> So I went and tested debian-live-9.0.0-amd64-gnome. The live installer
> still fails to install completely but bypasses bug 865015. As far as
> testing the live iso here is what I found:
> * I found that cups is not installed on the live iso and doing apt-get
> update and apt-get install cups fixes the problem.
> * I found that before installing cups if you list services to see if its
> running the daemon does not exist. After install use "service cups start"
> works and all is working.
>
> -----
> Looking at the live iso under "/pool/main/" for cups and/or printer-driver
> does not show up. It also is not listed in "/dists/stretch/main/". My best
> guess is it's not even included on the live iso but I am not totally sure
> (I can't install debian via the live iso to find out just quite yet -> bug
> 865015 is now resolved so I may retest using 9.0.1 and will see if cups is
> installed at what stage of the process).
>
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Brian Holaday <admin@codemonkeyrawks.net>
> wrote:
>
> > So I went and tested debian-live-9.0.0-amd64-gnome. The live installer
> > still fails to install completely but bypasses bug 865015. As far as
> > testing the live iso here is what I found:
> > * I found that cups is not installed on the live iso and doing apt-get
> > update and apt-get install cups fixes the problem.
> > * I found that before installing cups if you list services to see if its
> > running the daemon does not exist. After install use "service cups start"
> > works and all is working.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Brian Holaday <admin@codemonkeyrawks.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Looking at the live iso under "/pool/main/" for cups and/or
> >> printer-driver does not show up. It also is not listed in
> >> "/dists/stretch/main/". My best guess is it's not even included on the live
> >> iso but I am not totally sure (I can't install debian via the live iso to
> >> find out just quite yet -> bug 865015 is now resolved so I may retest using 9.0.1
> >> and will see if cups is installed at what stage of the process).
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Brian Holaday <admin@codemonkeyrawks.net
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >>> Looking at the live iso under "/pool/main/" for cups and/or
> >>> printer-driver does not show up. It also is not listed in
> >>> "/dists/stretch/main/". My best guess is it's not even included on the live
> >>> iso but I am not totally sure (I can't install debian via the live iso to
> >>> find out just quite yet -> bug 865015 is now resolved so I may retest using 9.0.1
> >>> and will see if cups is installed at what stage of the process).
Thank you for doing this. It saved my having to download a few GB. I can
now get a couple of TV programmes. :)
Not a cups bug; reassigning so the live folks can sort it out.
Cheers,
Brian.
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