Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet J2100 series printer not working after upgrade to lucid

[mydoghasworms]

Binary package hint: cups

After upgrading from Karmic to Lucid, my Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet J2100 series printer is no longer working. The printer does not show up in the system-config-printer application anymore, although I can see it if I run lsusb from a shell.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: cups 1.4.3-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog:

Date: Sun May 16 18:13:34 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: Connection refused
MachineType: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7379
Papersize: a4
PpdFiles: Officejet-J5700-series: HP Officejet j5700 Series hpijs, 3.9.8
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=0cbe2e6b-ffcd-428c-80d2-3f20c2bb5342 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_ZA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cups
dmi.bios.date: 01/24/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: V9.1
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: MS-7379
dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD
dmi.board.version: 3.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD
dmi.chassis.version: 3.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV9.1:bd01/24/2008:svnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:pnMS-7379:pvr3.0:rvnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:rnMS-7379:rvr3.0:cvnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:ct3:cvr3.0:
dmi.product.name: MS-7379
dmi.product.version: 3.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD

[mydoghasworms (dumace)]

OK, well it seems that cups was simply not started, although there is no indication why, and the only reason could have been the upgrade, which I performed using the upgrade tool on the update manager.

[mydoghasworms (dumace)]

Oh, and I did upgrade some cups-related packages prior to starting the troubleshooter on the printing administration tool. Not sure if that also helped resolve it.

[Allen Riddell (ariddell)]

Same problem. HP 1012. Was working, suddenly not. Device shows up in lsusb. Not sure how to debug.