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{SOLVED} localhost:631 won't connect.. other issues..

This is a fast and very nice distro.  I want it for my goto linux distro.  

My configuration of distros begins with setting up my printer, along with making sure I have an understanding of that distro's command line.  I'm discovering that the OpenRC init makes some of the familiar commands not work in this distro.  I'm hoping that somebody can point me to a commands list that work on Artix;  I see that most of the Manjaro/Arch commands work, but not all and I can't find replacements.

Also, the biggie, even though I see cups is installed I cannot get it to connect:  "unable to connect"

I have run through a lot of "fixes" for this to no avail.  Perhaps an Artix user that has been through this can give me a hint or three???

Respectfully,

- Huck

Re: localhost:631 won't connect.. other issues..

Reply #1 –
Printer set up varies according to make and model, it can be a bit involved. If you post the exact printer model perhaps someone could provide advice on that.
As for OpenRC, there are some cheat sheets / Rosetta Stone type lists around, e.g. :
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC_to_systemd_Cheatsheet
Personally the most effective way I've found to understand OpenRC and navigate the documentation is to get the source code somehow (it's not that big, 9.6MB for a git clone, less if you get a release without git history) then ag / ack / grep the man page files, and view those files with man -l. Or view the installed man pages with plain man.
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$ git clone https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc.git
$ cd openrc/man
$ ag rc-status
$ man -l rc-update.8
And if you want more detailed info you can look at the source itself! Not all man pages are mentioned from others, and there's useful ones you can miss reading one then going to others from the lists at the page bottoms. pacman -Ql openrc would show them all too, but this way you can search in a single dir.
(There's also some additional documentation in the source too, like user-guide.md)

Re: localhost:631 won't connect.. other issues..

Reply #2 –
Thank you ####### hero member.  I'll do a swan dive into the OpenRC stuff. 

This printer is an Epson ET-2650, fairly common.  On Wifi. 

Re: localhost:631 won't connect.. other issues..

Reply #3 –
Still can't even connect to localhost:631 .. this is new to me.  I've been installing the printer manager, which does come up, but its effort to connect is met with that error message saying can't connect. 
 

Re: localhost:631 won't connect.. other issues..

Reply #4 –
Hi huck,

have you installed cups and cups-openrc?
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sudo pacman -S cups cups-openrc
Did you then start the cupsd openrc service and add it to the default runlevels?
Code: [Select]
sudo rc-service cupsd start
sudo rc-update add cupsd default
After that you should able to connect to localhost:631.

greets
Roberto

Re: localhost:631 won't connect.. other issues..

Reply #5 –
Quote from: Roberto – on
Hi huck,

have you installed cups and cups-openrc?
Code: [Select]
sudo pacman -S cups cups-openrc
Did you then start the cupsd openrc service and add it to the default runlevels?
Code: [Select]
sudo rc-service cupsd start
sudo rc-update add cupsd default
After that you should able to connect to localhost:631.

greets
Roberto

Ah the runlevel!   Thank you.. dang I hate it when it's something simple.   :-[