Re: CUPS in stretch does NOT WORK - Ricoh printer SP112 SP112-su
On Wed 01 Feb 2017 at 14:13:00 +0000, Roba wrote:
> reaching CUPS, as I should be able to, is the problem, not printing
> (that is a personal problem).
It gives you a way of setting up the printer without the web interface.
> Again, your help (Brian) is appreciated but it seems as the problem and
> the reason I am bringing it up here is not just to solve my own printer
> problem, as this I brought into myself last year by buying a cheap
> printer with no linux support.
>
> Let's say I buy another printer with linux drivers available, would CUPS
> be reachable. To sum it up, there are others out there with Debian
> upgrade to testing that experienced the same and although they pin point
> the problem to /etc/hosts PARANOIA I have not been able to do the same
> as I can not find the correct syntax for making exceptions.
/etc/hosts has nothing to do with /etc/hosts.allow (which was mentioned
earlier).
> LYNX did not work, same unreachable response (wow it is still alive?)
> I will not try to rename ~/.mozilla as I already said that I created a
> new user and started ff from scratch new - no-plugins No difference.
> Running browser as root did not reach. I am suspecting a more serious
> problem than it appears.
>
> Here is another output if that helps:
> $ ping 127.0.0.1
> PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.015 ms
> $ ping 127.0.0.1:631
> ping: 127.0.0.1:631: Name or service not known
The last command will fail for 100% of users.
Please post the outputs of
systemctl status cups
and
netstat -tulpan
--
Brian.
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