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Old 12-21-2008, 06:52 PM   #1
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Cups and HPLIP


I have an HP printer that uses HPLIP and have hit a stone wall trying to install the printer using HPLP.

I tried with the printer defined to cups and also with no printer defined to cups. With the printer defined to cups, cups would not print a test page.
Either way HPLIP keeps telling me:
Quote:
Printer queue setup failed.
please restart CUPS and try again
Is this, perhaps, a priveleges problem? If so what do I need to do to correct it?

(HPLIP was installed using "slackpkg"; and yes, I verified that the mirror that was commented in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors was for a 12.2 mirror; This is the mirror:
"http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/slackware/slackware-12.2/")

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Old 12-21-2008, 07:13 PM   #2
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Open a terminal and run hp-setup (you may need to be root, but try it first as your normal user), also, go to http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html and make sure that it's installed correctly.
 
Old 12-21-2008, 09:01 PM   #3
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Open a terminal and run hp-setup (you may need to be root
Yes, one must be root to runm this.
Running it from a terminal as root, I get this
Code:
No protocol specified
hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0
root@abitbox:/home/gary#
If I start it from the "run" dialog box, a gui starts that is the same one I get when running "hp-toolbox" and that gives me the error in my first post.
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Originally Posted by XavierP View Post
go to http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html and make sure that it's installed correctly.
I installed this using a freshly downloaded slackware install package; so if it's not installed correctly , then that means the slackware package has a bug in it - correct????

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Thank you for the reply;

Gary

Last edited by garyg007; 12-21-2008 at 09:16 PM. Reason: SOME OF WHAT I POSTED WAS ALL WET --- so I deleted it , sorry
 
Old 12-21-2008, 09:17 PM   #4
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Hmmmmmm......I've had no difficulty at all running my HP Laserjet P2015 printer on Slackware 12.1 and on 12.2. Have you set the cups daemon to run at start-up? If you installed cups with the install CDs/DVD you can start-up cups.

# chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups
 
Old 12-22-2008, 12:50 AM   #5
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Run the following command as a normal user
Code:
LC_ALL=$LANG.UTF8 hp-toolbox
and then setup/test your printer.

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Old 12-22-2008, 05:16 AM   #6
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I got my HP Deskjet D4260 going by starting CUPS:
Code:
# chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups
# /etc/rc.d/rc.cups start
Then going to http://localhost:631, and configuring from there.
 
Old 12-22-2008, 05:47 AM   #7
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Quote:
Originally Posted by garyg007 View Post
Yes, one must be root to runm this.
Running it from a terminal as root, I get this
Code:
No protocol specified
hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0
root@abitbox:/home/gary#
That's why I never liked to start in runlevel 4. Can you start it then with "kdesu hp-setup" as normal user?
 
Old 12-22-2008, 07:18 AM   #8
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Hello!

I've got an HP printer too (HP Officejet Pro K5400dn). I've just installed cups and hplip (and gutenprint, needed for another machine). Then I've started firefox, went to localhost:631 and added my printer. It works fine.
I had problems with the graphical tool, which comes with hplip. It couldn't find my printer.

Be sure, that the CUPS server is running!

Best Regards
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Old 12-22-2008, 08:24 AM   #9
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Hmmmmmm......I've had no difficulty at all running my HP Laserjet P2015 printer on Slackware 12.1 and on 12.2. Have you set the cups daemon to run at start-up? If you installed cups with the install CDs/DVD you can start-up cups.

# chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups
The issue here is getting HPLIP setup properly
 
Old 12-22-2008, 08:42 AM   #10
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The issue here is getting HPLIP setup properly
Good luck with this. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

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Old 12-22-2008, 12:48 PM   #11
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Does the fix work better if it comes straight from Pat V.? The following still applies to 12.2:
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Slackware 12.1/CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT

There is a minor problem with the HPLIP and CUPS versions in Slackware 12.1;
hp-toolbox will not work unless LC_ALL is set to a UTF8 locale.
An easy workaround is to start it with "LC_ALL=$LANG.UTF8 hp-toolbox" if
you're not using a UTF8 locale. Also, your user account must be a member
of the "lp" group for hp-toolbox to work properly, and to use the scanner
portion of some (all?) HP print/scan/copy units, you'll need to be a member
of the "lp" group. This is due to the fact that hplip's udev rules set
the device with group "lp" ownership.
As for the 'lp' group, I figured you would have known that already:
Quote:
Slackware 12.2/CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT

HP multifunction printer/scanners require that your user account be a member
of the "lp" group for hp-toolbox to work properly, and to use the scanner
portion of some (all?) units, you'll need to be a member of the "lp" group.
This is because hplip's udev rules set the device with group "lp" ownership.
Frank

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Old 12-22-2008, 01:31 PM   #12
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Yes, that's what I forgot to mention in my post: adding yourself to the lp group.
 
Old 12-23-2008, 11:57 AM   #13
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Thanks for the assistance.

Adding my user to the "lp" group appeares to have done the trick.

I do not remember having any problems with it in 12.1; but then I have a difficult time remembering what I had for breakfast this morning.

Another item that may have had something to do with the problem: The premissions for rc.messagebus and rc.hald did not include "execute".

And a --for what its worth-- I tried the current version of hplip which is hplip-2.8.12; src2pkg appeared to process the source without any hiccups; and installpkg installed it ok. But trying to run
hp-setup this error was produced:
Code:
warning: Found multiple possible PPD files

Choose a PPD file that most closely matches your device:
(Note: The model number may vary slightly from the actual model number on the device.)

Num. PPD Filename Description
---- ----------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hp-setup", line 496, in <module>
    mins_list = mins.keys()
AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'keys'

Gary

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