[SOLVED] HPLIP crashes on 14

Eternal_Newbie · 10-15-2012, 01:54 PM

I've been encountering crashes and general odd behavior with hplip 3.12.9 in Slackware 14. Such as hp-toolbox crashing on startup if a ~/.hplip/ directory exists and hp-check hanging at initialisation.

Upgrading to hplip 3.12.10a appears to have fixed most of these issues, although hp-check still doesn't work and hp-systray won't always open hp-toolbox, but at least hp-toolbox works now.

mlangdn · 10-15-2012, 02:47 PM

In ~/home/youruser/.hplip/hplip.conf, delete the upgrade section at the bottom of that file. That should solve your problem. You may need to be root to delete that section.

Eternal_Newbie · 10-15-2012, 02:57 PM

Thanks, but upgrading fixed the issue with the ~/.hplip/ directory existing (not just ~/.hplip/hplip.conf) and that doesn't help with the hp-check hang.

I'll keep it in mind for if I reinstall or do any other install of 14. And of course that's handy info for those who would rather not upgrade hplip.