Update to HPLIP printer/scanner breaks connectivity

Bug #1718718 reported by Mark Preston
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Bug Description

Per Device Manager:

HPLIP-3.17.9 version was installed on 20-09-2017.

Yesterday, Weds. 20Sept17, the HP Device Manager noticed me that there was an Update ready to install. Clicking for the install radio button produced no results. Running the update in a terminal session installed the update. After that installation, I checked the printer and scanner (not FAX) and both printer and scanner worked. This morning, Thurs. 21Sept17, neither the printer nor the scanner work.

Printer Model: HP-LJ M227fdw (or fdew, I've forgotten.)

Pop-up window read:

HPLIP cannot detect devices in your network. This may be due to existing firewall settings blocking the required ports like (5353/udp). When you are in a trusted network environment, you may open the ports for network services like mdns and slp in the firewall. For detailed steps follow the link.

 http://hplipopensource.com/node/375

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mark@Lexington:~$ hp-doctor

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.17.9)
Self Diagnse Utility and Healing Utility ver. 1.0

Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP 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.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.17.9)
Self Diagnse Utility and Healing Utility ver. 1.0

Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP 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.

Checking for Deprecated items....
No Deprecated items are found

Checking for HPLIP updates....

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.17.9)
HPLIP upgrade latest version ver. 1.0

Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP 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.

Latest version of HPLIP is already installed.

Checking for Dependencies....

---------------
| SYSTEM INFO |
---------------

 Kernel: 4.10.0-35-generic #39~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 13 09:02:42 UTC 2017 GNU/Linux
 Host: Lexington
 Proc: 4.10.0-35-generic #39~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 13 09:02:42 UTC 2017 GNU/Linux
 Distribution: 12 16.04
 Bitness: 64 bit

-----------------------
| HPLIP CONFIGURATION |
-----------------------

HPLIP-Version: HPLIP 3.17.9
HPLIP-Home: /usr/share/hplip
HPLIP-Installation: Auto installation is supported for ubuntu distro 16.04 version

Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:
# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.

[hplip]
version=3.17.9

[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/ppd/HP
ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.17.9
html=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.17.9
icon=/usr/share/applications
cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
drv=/usr/share/cups/drv/hp
bin=/usr/bin
apparmor=/etc/apparmor.d
# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
network-build=yes
libusb01-build=no
pp-build=no
gui-build=yes
scanner-build=yes
fax-build=yes
dbus-build=yes
cups11-build=no
doc-build=yes
shadow-build=no
hpijs-install=no
foomatic-drv-install=no
foomatic-ppd-install=no
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no
hpcups-install=yes
cups-drv-install=yes
cups-ppd-install=no
internal-tag=3.17.9
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt4
qt3=no
qt4=yes
qt5=no
policy-kit=no
lite-build=no
udev_sysfs_rules=no
hpcups-only-build=no
hpijs-only-build=no
apparmor_build=yes

Current contents of '/var/lib/hp/hplip.state' file:
[plugin]
installed = 1
eula = 1
version = 3.17.9

Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
[upgrade]
notify_upgrade = true
last_upgraded_time = 1505937580
pending_upgrade_time = 0
latest_available_version = 3.17.9

[settings]
systray_visible = 0
systray_messages = 0

[last_used]
device_uri = "hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231?serial=VNB3C25290"
printer_name =
working_dir = .

[commands]
scan = /usr/bin/xsane -V %SANE_URI%

[refresh]
rate = 30
enable = false
type = 1

[polling]
enable = false
interval = 5
device_list =

[fax]
voice_phone =
email_address =

[installation]
date_time = 09/21/2017 08:57:14
version = 3.17.9

 <Package-name> <Package-Desc> <Required/Optional> <Min-Version> <Installed-Version> <Status> <Comment>

--------------
| COMPILEDEP |
--------------

 gcc gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler REQUIRED - 5.4.0 OK -
 make make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs REQUIRED 3.0 4.1 OK -
 libtool libtool - Library building support services REQUIRED - 2.4.6 OK -

------------------------
| General Dependencies |
------------------------

 libcrypto libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library REQUIRED - 1.0.2 OK -
 python-xml Python XML libraries REQUIRED - 2.1.0 OK -
 libnetsnmp-devel libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files REQUIRED 5.0.9 5.7.3 OK -
 sane-devel SANE - Scanning library development files REQUIRED - 1.0.25 OK -
 pil PIL - Python Imaging Library (required for commandline scanning with hp-scan) OPTIONAL - 1.1.7 OK -
 pyqt4-dbus PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4 REQUIRED 4.0 4.11.4 OK -
 libpthread libpthread - POSIX threads library REQUIRED - 2.23 OK -
 python-devel Python devel - Python development files REQUIRED 2.2 2.7.12 OK -
 cups-devel CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files REQUIRED - 2.1.3 OK -
 python-dbus Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus REQUIRED 0.80.0 1.2.0 OK -
 cups-ddk CUPS DDK - CUPS driver development kit OPTIONAL - - OK -
 reportlab Reportlab - PDF library for Python OPTIONAL 2.0 3.3.0 OK -
 pyqt4 PyQt 4- Qt interface for Python (for Qt version 4.x) REQUIRED 4.0 4.11.4 OK -
 libusb libusb - USB library REQUIRED - 1.0 OK -
 cups-image CUPS image - CUPS image development files REQUIRED - 2.1.3 OK -
 python2X Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language REQUIRED 2.2 2.7.12 OK -
 python-notify Python libnotify - Python bindings for the libnotify Desktop notifications OPTIONAL - - OK -
 libjpeg libjpeg - JPEG library REQUIRED - - OK -
 sane SANE - Scanning library REQUIRED - 1.0.25 OK -

----------------------
| Scan Configuration |
----------------------

 scanext Scan-SANE-Extension REQUIRED - 3.17.9 OK -
 hpaio HPLIP-SANE-Backend REQUIRED - 3.17.9 OK 'hpaio found in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf'

-------------------------
| External Dependencies |
-------------------------

 gs GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer REQUIRED 7.05 9.18 OK -
 cups CUPS - Common Unix Printing System REQUIRED 1.1 2.1.3 OK 'CUPS Scheduler is running'
 network network -wget OPTIONAL - 1.17.1 OK -
 scanimage scanimage - Shell scanning program OPTIONAL 1.0 1.0.25 OK -
 policykit PolicyKit - Administrative policy framework OPTIONAL - 0.105 OK -
 xsane xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE OPTIONAL 0.9 0.999 OK -
 dbus DBus - Message bus system REQUIRED - 1.10.6 OK -
 avahi-utils avahi-utils OPTIONAL - 0.6.32 OK -

---------------------
| Python Extentions |
---------------------

 hpmudext IO-Extension REQUIRED - 3.17.9 OK -
 cupsext CUPS-Extension REQUIRED - 3.17.9 OK -

------------------------------
| DISCOVERED SCANNER DEVICES |
------------------------------

No Scanner found.

--------------------------
| DISCOVERED USB DEVICES |
--------------------------

No devices found.

---------------------------------
| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES |
---------------------------------

HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231
-------------------------
Type: Printer
Device URI: hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231?serial=VNB3C25290
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231.ppd
PPD Description: HP LaserJet Pro MFP M227-M231 Postscript (recommended)
Printer status: printer HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231 is idle. enabled since Sat 16 Sep 2017 09:32:32 AM PDT
error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231?serial=VNB3C25290
error: Device not found
error: Communication status: Failed

HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231_fax
-----------------------------
Type: Fax
Device URI: hpfax:/usb/HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231?serial=VNB3C25290
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231_fax.ppd
PPD Description: HP Fax2 hpcups
Printer status: printer HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231_fax is idle. enabled since Wed 09 Aug 2017 03:07:38 PM PDT
error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hpfax:/usb/HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231?serial=VNB3C25290
error: Device not found
error: Communication status: Failed

--------------
| PERMISSION |
--------------

Checking Permissions....

Checking for Configured Queues....

Queue(s) configured correctly using HPLIP.

Checking for HP Properitery Plugin's....
No plug-in printers are configured.

Checking for Printer Status....
error: 'HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231_fax' Printer is either Powered-OFF or Failed to communicate.
Turn On Printer and re-run hp-doctor
error: 'HP_LaserJet_MFP_M227-M231' Printer is either Powered-OFF or Failed to communicate.
Turn On Printer and re-run hp-doctor

Diagnose completed...

More information on Troubleshooting,How-To's and Support is available on http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html

How do I purge all the HP related code so that I might re-install it "clean"?

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