Cannot launch hp tools
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Canonical System Image |
Incomplete
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
unity8 (Ubuntu) |
Expired
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
hplip is a common set of tools to manage HP printers. The tools fail to start on unity8 and the indicator is not displayed in the top panel.
The following message is displayed on the command line:
---------
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.16.11)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0
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.
Loading module: 'libubuntu_
[QPA] QMirClientClien
Mir returned: "Failed to connect: not accepted by server"
[2017-03-07 16:06:27.426662] <ERROR> MirConnectionAPI: Caught exception at client library boundary (in mir_connection_
Dynamic exception type: boost::
std::exception:
[boost:
---------
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: unity8 8.15+17.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 7 16:08:35 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-23 (958 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: unity8
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2016-11-15 (112 days ago)
upstart.
This means the snap does not include the mir QPA and/or doesn't connect to mir-libs?
Not a unity8 bug.
As a separate thing, no support for application indicators was planned in unity8.