HPLIP Simple Problem

solarwind · 2008-05-09 03:08:00

Hey all, I installed HPLIP using yaourt -S hplip and then directly configured CUPS through the web interface to successfully get my HP printer printing properly.

However, when I run any of the various hp-* tools from the terminal, they don't work. The programs start and then just freeze. Is there a solution to this?

When I run hp-setup as root, this is what happens:

[root@vg-x2 vg]# hp-setup 

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 7.0

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
Services and Status Daemon ver. 9.3

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

That's all. It freezes there. Pressing ctrl+c spits out:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hp-setup", line 342, in <module>
    w = setupform.SetupForm(bus, param, jd_port, username)
  File "/usr/share/hplip/ui/setupform.py", line 158, in __init__
    self.hpssd_sock = service.startup()
  File "/usr/share/hplip/base/service.py", line 51, in startup
    time.sleep(0.5)
KeyboardInterrupt

How do I get hplip working properly?

iBertus · 2008-05-09 04:13:43

Did you start the daemons required from /etc/rc.d? I don't recall the names, but they all start with 'hp' in the name.

edit: I just checked and don't see the daemons in the new hplip package. Perhaps they're not required anymore?

Last edited by iBertus (2008-05-09 04:16:34)

gradgrind · 2008-05-09 06:53:16

It may not help you much but 'kdesu hp-setup' works fine here.

Oh, and the daemon is not required any more.

Last edited by gradgrind (2008-05-09 06:54:27)

solarwind · 2008-05-09 11:45:31

I don't use KDE.

gradgrind · 2008-05-09 14:31:05

solarwind wrote:

I don't use KDE.

That doesn't necessarily mean you haven't got kdesu. But if not, do you have gksu? sux? Otherwise you could try logging in as root and running it from there.

If you have 'sudo' set up, that might do it too, but I don't know the details concerning that.

peart · 2008-05-09 14:39:31

Did you install the optional pyqt3 package? When you install hplip, Pacman spits out a message saying pyqt3 is required to run hp-toolbox. It's probably required for all the hp-* apps.

solarwind · 2008-05-09 21:22:07

peart wrote:

Did you install the optional pyqt3 package? When you install hplip, Pacman spits out a message saying pyqt3 is required to run hp-toolbox. It's probably required for all the hp-* apps.

Yes, I did.

byte · 2008-05-10 00:01:22

Make sure you're in the 'lp' group.

synthead · 2008-05-10 00:57:55

I am having the same problem.

solarwind · 2008-05-10 03:23:23

byte wrote:

Make sure you're in the 'lp' group.

I added myself. Same problem.

solarwind · 2008-05-10 19:29:27

This is really annoying... Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

theringmaster · 2008-05-10 20:57:42

does "hp-toolbox" work??

solarwind · 2008-05-10 21:20:41

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
HP Device Manager ver. 11.0

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

warning: Reportlab not installed. Fax coverpages disabled.
warning: Please install version 2.0+ of Reportlab for coverpage support.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
Services and Status Daemon ver. 9.3

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Nope.

theringmaster · 2008-05-11 02:01:19

solarwind wrote:

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
HP Device Manager ver. 11.0

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

warning: Reportlab not installed. Fax coverpages disabled.
warning: Please install version 2.0+ of Reportlab for coverpage support.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
Services and Status Daemon ver. 9.3

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Nope.

well search for report lab in whatever repo that is in, and install it. should run after that.

solarwind · 2008-05-11 02:09:45

theringmaster wrote:

solarwind wrote:

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
HP Device Manager ver. 11.0

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

warning: Reportlab not installed. Fax coverpages disabled.
warning: Please install version 2.0+ of Reportlab for coverpage support.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
Services and Status Daemon ver. 9.3

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Nope.

well search for report lab in whatever repo that is in, and install it. should run after that.

It's a warning, so I don't think it's required. I'll try and post back anyway. Thanks!

solarwind · 2008-05-11 02:10:36

Nope. Still the same error.

vg@vg-x2 ~ $ sudo hp-setup 

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 7.0

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.


HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
Services and Status Daemon ver. 9.3

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

synthead · 2008-07-11 22:20:08

solarwind wrote:

Nope. Still the same error.

vg@vg-x2 ~ $ sudo hp-setup 

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 7.0

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.


HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
Services and Status Daemon ver. 9.3

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

This is the same error I'm getting. It verboses this and just hangs.

z0phi3l · 2008-07-12 00:18:54

Did you setup and run the CUPS daemon?

You need CUPS running for HP lip to work

solarwind · 2008-07-13 04:06:13

z0phi3l wrote:

Did you setup and run the CUPS daemon?
You need CUPS running for HP lip to work

I did and I'm sure he did. Let me try this on Linux Mint. I'll report back.

theringmaster · 2008-07-13 14:56:23

hp-toolbox opens for me without cups running, but i was not able to successfully set up my printer untill i turned cups on.

synthead · 2008-07-15 23:00:05

Yeah, CUPS is running. Running hp-toolbox just shows those messages and hangs until I Ctrl-C out of it. Then I get this:

[max@killterm2 hplip]$ hp-toolbox

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
HP Device Manager ver. 11.0

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.


HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2)
Services and Status Daemon ver. 9.3

Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hp-toolbox", line 182, in <module>
    hpssd_sock = service.startup()
  File "/usr/share/hplip/base/service.py", line 51, in startup
    time.sleep(0.5)
KeyboardInterrupt
[max@killterm2 hplip]$

solarwind · 2008-07-15 23:15:22

Ok, it's working for me on Linux Mint. I don't know why it's not working on Arch Linux.

solarwind · 2008-07-15 23:25:28

It's working amazingly well on Linux Mint. Scan and print work perfectly.

synthead · 2008-07-16 00:03:17

solarwind wrote:

Ok, it's working for me on Linux Mint. I don't know why it's not working on Arch Linux.

What exactly did you do to run it after you installed it? Anything special I need to do beforehand?

solarwind · 2008-07-16 01:48:11

synthead wrote:

solarwind wrote:
Ok, it's working for me on Linux Mint. I don't know why it's not working on Arch Linux.
What exactly did you do to run it after you installed it? Anything special I need to do beforehand?

Well Linux Mint is an "easy" distro so I just installed pyqt3 and ran hp-setup, then the other stuff just worked. It should be just as simple on Arch but I don't know why it wouldn't work.

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