Installing support for Phototsmart 7150 on Ubuntu 10.10 server (no desktop).
Installed 3.10.6 and 3.11.3a.
Installation hangs at the point where the printer is supposed to be detected (after the prompt to restart).
At that point I break out with Ctrl-C.
I then run hp-setup and select usb. That process complains about missing dbus file but prompts for the printing of a test page. The job begins but only a few lines are printed before the page is ejected, some more lines print, the page is ejected and so on.
Have tried to uninstall with make uninstall but since there's no desktop I suppose the hp files are in the home folder?
Please inform of proper uninstall for my case.

I have also installed hplip via the webmin config. That install proceeds smoothly with no errors but print result is same.

Posting excerpts from system, cupsd, installer or other log files or posting exact error lines always trumps talking about errors.


The printer is clearly supported (reference, reference) but at least one other person identified the same problem as you have. Here (2009) is a modified PPD for the 7150 together with instructions you could try and here is the corresponding launchpad ticket. If it does not work and if no other advice comes your way please consider opening a new ticket at the HPLIP developers site or Launchpad.

Thanks. That worked.

Now there's another problem. I can't modify the printer settings. This appears to be a cups issue because when I try to access cups admin with <ip>:631/admin I get a 403 Forbidden error. Strangely enough I can go to <ip>:631/admin/conf but if I try any admin stuff the 403 comes up.

I've looked at my cupsd.conf and modified a number of directives with no effect. I'm locked out of any administrative functions. As for groups I'm a member of the lp and lpadmin groups.

Any ideas?

Best check your CUPS logs for clues. Else post your complete cups config in BB code tags.

I posted my solution at another thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-fails-873954/