[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#484058: hplip: hp-systray won't do anything, fails silently to start cause pyqt not installed

[Olivier Berger]

Package: hplip
Version: 2.8.4-1
Severity: normal

Hi.

On my system, the hp-systray icon is visible, however, double-clicking
it won't do anything.

Looking at the xsession-errors, I see an error, but otherwise, from the
GUI, nothing displayed.

.xsession-errors contains :
error: PyQt not installed. GUI not available. Exiting.
warning: Qt/PyQt initialization failed.
error: hp-toolbox requires GUI support. Exiting.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.4)
HP Device Manager ver. 13.1

Copyright (c) 2001-8 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.

At least, some popup saying that a problem occurred would be better.

Btw, shouldn't hp-systray be part of package hplip-gui instead of hplip ?

I see that hplip won't depend on python-qt4 whereas hplip-gui does.

Best regards,


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.107            add and remove users and groups
ii  coreutils               6.10-3           The GNU core utilities
ii  cupsys                  1.3.7-5          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  hplip-data              2.8.4-1          HP Linux Printing and Imaging - da
ii  libc6                   2.7-10           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsys2              1.3.7-5          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.1-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libjpeg62               6b-14            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libsane                 1.0.19-10        API library for scanners
ii  libsnmp15               5.4.1~dfsg-7.1   SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8g-10+lenny1 SSL shared libraries
ii  libusb-0.1-4            2:0.1.12-11      userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                3.2-11           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  python                  2.5.2-1          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-dbus             0.82.4-2         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-imaging          1.1.6-2          Python Imaging Library
ii  python-support          0.7.7            automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii  cupsys-client              1.3.7-5       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  hpijs                      2.8.4+2.8.4-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs
ii  hpijs-ppds                 2.8.4+2.8.4-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - HP
ii  hplip-gui                  2.8.4-1       HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GU
ii  openprinting-ppds          20080211-2    OpenPrinting printer support - Pos

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