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WaFuSan

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From: Nagoya

Registered: 2005-01-27

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cannot connect to localhost [solved]

Today I was unable to print on the network printers, so I tried to look at their configuration through http://localhost:631, as explained in the wiki (that's how I configured them last week), and I got the following error message: "could not connect to host localhost (port 631)".
I have looked at the /etc.hosts file, and it looks unchanged:

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

Where can this error come from ?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: cannot connect to localhost [solved]

Is cups running? Port 631 won't be available if cups is not active.

kth5

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Registered: 2004-04-29

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Re: cannot connect to localhost [solved]

check if you network loopback device is up and configured properly. it should obviously look like something this:

[kth5@maetrik ~]$ ifconfig lo
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:185 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:185 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:9852 (9.6 Kb)  TX bytes:9852 (9.6 Kb)

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

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Re: cannot connect to localhost [solved]

My bet is you didn't add cups to your DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf. When you rebooted, cups wasn't restarted, so nothing is listening on port 631.

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WaFuSan

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From: Nagoya

Registered: 2005-01-27

Posts: 39

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Re: cannot connect to localhost [solved]

I did indeed forget to add cups to the DAEMONS array.  :oops:
that's another mistake I won't do anymore!