hp-plugin cannot detect the network in the chrooted environment

[DmitryKX]

Both /proc and /sys are mounted. I can download files with wget and access web pages with
'links'. But hp-plugin fails:

root@build:/# hp-plugin -i

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.10.6)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1

Copyright (c) 2001-9 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.

error: PolicyKit support requires DBUS or PolicyKit support files missing
(Note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press <enter> to accept the default.)

/
-----------------------------------------
| PLUG-IN INSTALLATION FOR HPLIP 3.10.6 |
-----------------------------------------

The driver plugin for HPLIP 3.10.6 appears to already be installed.
Do you wish to download and re-install the plug-in? (y=yes*, n=no, q=quit) ?
  Option Description
  ---------- --------------------------------------------------
  d Download plug-in from HP (recomended)
  p Specify a path to the plug-in (advanced)
  q Quit hp-plugin (skip installation)

Enter option (d=download*, p=specify path, q=quit) ?

--------------------------
| DOWNLOAD CONFIGURATION |
--------------------------

Checking for network connection...
error: Network connection not detected.

**********************************

With debugging turned on:

Checking for network connection...
hp-plugin[16133]: debug: /usr/bin/wget --timeout=10 --output-document=-
http://www.google.com
hp-plugin[16133]: debug: wget returned: 1
error: Network connection not detected.

I tried to run this manually:

root@build:/# /usr/bin/wget --timeout=10 --output-document=-
http://www.google.com
--2012-09-13 11:59:56-- http://www.google.com/
Resolving www.google.com... 74.125.224.82, 74.125.224.81, 74.125.224.84, ...
Connecting to www.google.com|74.125.224.82|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `STDOUT'

    [<=> ] 0

<...>

    [ <=> ] 13,910
--.-K/s in 0.001s

2012-09-13 11:59:56 (11.2 MB/s) - written to stdout [13910]

root@build:/# echo $?
0

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Found in versions 3.10.6 and 3.12.6

[Amarnath Chitumalla (amarnath-chitumalla)]

Hi,

Please install latest version of HPLIP-3.12.10a from @http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install.html

And let us know if the problem is reproducible.

Thanks & Regards,
Amarnath

[urusha (urusha)]

Still exists in 16.04