Porteus/Arch aka Sensei (Porteus w/pacman package manager)

[stifiling]

are you getting an error when u run the command:

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cupsd

if not try:

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pidof cupsd

and see if a number pops up...

It's been a while since i've owned a printer...but the usual "CUPS 1.7.1" homepage comes up on my installation when i go to the url "http://localhost:631/"...after installing libcups, cups, and running the command cupsd....

[francois]

You are right it comes up. But as soon as you try to install a printer. There is no more response.

[stifiling]

I'll have to poke around w/it when i get to a printer. are you using a HP printer? if so, i see on the arch wiki it's saying to install hplip.

Once again though, i'm not too sure about the printing end of things. Looks like it's going to take a lil pecking though to get it all figured out. I'll try to get to a printer and mess around w/it this weekend.

[francois]

Hello stifiling,

Hplip is for hp printers, I have a brother printer.

Please try installing system-config-printer an additional program and open the package. It works on the top of cups. You will see what I mean.
You do not need a printer to test the package. With system-config-printer package tries to install network with ipp settings as shown in this thread:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=1994

Under cups:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?t=822&p=14057
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?t=727

But maybe you gave me an idea.

[stifiling]

I got it printing. install gutenprint, killall cupsd and then run cupsd again. and when u browse to localhost:631...see if you can find or add your printer. admin's username/password = root/toor

[jawbonegroove]

hello. i'm just starting to poke around looking for interesting distros, and this is fantastic! i think think this project needs more exposure/development.

i do have some questions/comments.

francois: regarding adduser, that tripped me up too when i moved from debian to arch... the command is useradd, here's the arch wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Us ... management

i'm still working on login / window manager settings, as i'd rather not use root all the time.

i don't know if you want to throw some more packages in there or not (maybe a laptop module?), but the clickpad (no right click) and touchscreen (calibration) on my sony laptop have been a bit of a pain. working on that now.

i ditched pacman express for pacaur; it runs -Sf instead of -S --force which fails whenever i needed to force anything (which seems to be a lot so far)

really though, i like this enough to dedicate some time to it; i may even get adventurous and work up a fltk wrapper for pacaur.

i haven't tried tracking this down yet (it doesn't seem to effect functionality that i've seen):

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# pacman -S foo      
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 4: directive 'Server' in section 'options' not recognized.

thanks for the work you put into this!!
cheers

[stifiling]

which Sensei are you using? 2.1 or 3.0?

I found a different way of building the system, and --force installing packages shouldn't be necessary anymore. also the contents of /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist should look exactly like this:

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# WARNING! Do not edit this file if you want stable system!
## United States
Server = http://seblu.net/a/arm/2014/03/25/$repo/os/$arch

so as we can see...it's only 3 lines. no "line 4"...

[jawbonegroove]

sorry, should've included that... i'm using 3.0 64bit with xfce. my mirrorlist is the same, looks like it was just prepended by pacman express:

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# Server list generated by rankmirrors on 2014-05-30

( i got a little excited with the fancy buttons i guess )

but the problem is the same ... after removing line 1:

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pacman -Syu
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 3: directive 'Server' in section 'options' not recognized.

EDIT: i can't remember now what all i forced ( or whether i tried without it first; i've slept since then ) except the devx64-xfce30 package which wouldn't install without.

[stifiling]

the system is built using the ARM (Arch Rollback Machine) packages dated March 25th. Using the default arch mirrors, is more than likely what's causing the issue. Although this system is based on Arch, it's not a rolling distro. So pretty much...u should use the seblu.net server in the mirrorlist file...like I have illustrated above. Editing the mirrorlist using rankmirrors, or even changing the seblu.net date from 03/25, is presently untested by myself, and since the packages are about 3 months old now...for the most part, probably won't work too well.

[jawbonegroove]

also maybe of interest. i have a boot partition with just the kernel and init image for each of my boots (currently arch, porteus, sensei, slitaz, debian and windows -- suggestions welcome).

my syslinux.cfg entry:

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LABEL sensei
    MENU LABEL Sensei Linux (Porteus-Arch)
    LINUX ../sensei/vmlinuz
    APPEND initrd=../sensei/initrd.xz copy2ram root=/dev/sda6 from=/dev/sda6 changes=/dev/sda6 timezone=America/Los_Angeles

seems to work well.

note that any time i modify my kernel or init image i need to copy them to my /boot/sensei/

[jawbonegroove]

looking for that now. i didn't think i enabled any arch mirrors but i'll poke around some more.

[jawbonegroove]

okay, i'm just an idiot.

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#[testing]
#SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

beautiful.

[francois]

I got it printing. install gutenprint, killall cupsd and then run cupsd again. and when u browse to localhost:631...see if you can find or add your printer. admin's username/password = root/toor

Very busy now. I will try it as soon as I get some spare time.

Thanks a lot.

[francois]

According to the wiki:
I have gutenprint installed. But it seems that cups is not starting at bootup

1) According to the wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS
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You should issue the following command to have cups at startup:

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root@sensei:~# [code]root@sensei:~# systemctl enable cups.service
bash: [code]root@sensei:~#: command not found
root@sensei:~# 

It does not work. And I did not found a cue with google on some kind of solution.

2) however using cups command will permit access to the installed printers.

But:
3) cupsd command will not get system-config-printer to function properly.



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is not enough. You have to issue the following command:

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root@sensei:~# systemctl enable cups.service
root@sensei:~#

[stifiling]

to get it to start at bootup you could add cupsd to your /root/.start file. the systemctl command is systemd related...and this doesn't use systemd.

did you get it to print to your canon printer after installing gutenprint? even though you don't have cupsd autostarting at boot yet?