[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#458803: hplip: hp-{toolbox, sendfax, setup} no longer work

[Todd A. Jacobs]

Package: hplip
Version: 2.7.10-5
Severity: important


When first tested a few weeks back, 2.7.10-5 worked fine. A few
"aptitude dist-upgrade" runs later, it has stopped working. Oddly
enough, the CUPS back end still works fine: I can print to the printer,
but I can't use any of the hplip tools to configure or manage the
printer.

The printer is connected by wifi, is accessible to hp-makeuri, and can
be pinged from the host. So, connectivity doesn't seem to be the issue,
and the configuration has been tested with all firewall rules turned
off just to ensure a clean test.

Attempting to use hp-setup fails, even when it can identify the printer.
It claims it can't read the PPD files, even when they're manually
assigned, and doesn't seem to see the existing CUPS configuration when
it exists.

Also, if it's important, hpssd is running, although it doesn't seem to
be starting from anything in /etc/init.d, so I'm not sure *how* it's
getting launched. It comes up after every reboot, though, so that seems
to be reliable.

In short, I'm at a complete loss as to why it suddenly stopped working.
The only saving grace is that paper (not fax) printing remains viable,
which keeps the bug from making the whole package unusable.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii  adduser             3.105                add and remove users and groups
ii  coreutils           5.97-5.3             The GNU core utilities
ii  cupsys              1.3.4-4              Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  hplip-data          2.7.10-5             HP Linux Printing and Imaging - da
ii  libc6               2.7-5                GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsys2          1.3.4-4              Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libjpeg62           6b-14                The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libsane             1.0.19~cvs20071213-1 API library for scanners
ii  libsnmp15           5.4.1~dfsg-4         SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii  libssl0.9.8         0.9.8g-3             SSL shared libraries
ii  libusb-0.1-4        2:0.1.12-8           userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base            3.1-24               Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  python              2.4.4-6              An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support      0.7.5                automated rebuilding support for p

Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii  cupsys-client            1.3.4-4         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  hpijs                    2.7.10+2.7.10-5 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs
ii  hpijs-ppds               2.7.10+2.7.10-5 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - HP
ii  hplip-gui                2.7.10-5        HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GU
pn  openprinting-ppds        <none>          (no description available)
ii  python-reportlab         2.0dfsg-1       ReportLab library to create PDF do

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