I have a HP Officejet 5230

On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 20:11, brian_p <email address hidden> wrote:

> What is your printer?
>
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> Brian.
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1796864
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> Title:
>   Installer cannot find /etc/PolicyKit, but it is now /etc/polkit-1
>
> Status in HPLIP:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   I am running Arch Linux.
>   When trying to install hplip as described here:
> https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/install/install/index
> , I get the following output/error:
>
>
> ####################################################################################################
>
>   $ sh /home/maddin/user_programs/hplip-3.18.9.run
>
>   Creating directory hplip-3.18.9
>   Verifying archive integrity... All good.
>   Uncompressing HPLIP 3.18.9 Self Extracting Archive.. [more ...]
>
>   HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.9)
>   HPLIP Installer ver. 5.1
>
>   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.
>
>   Installer log saved in: hplip-install_Tue-09-Oct-2018_13:01:27.log
>
>                                  \
>   note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press <enter> to
> accept the default.  -Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/home/maddin/user_programs/hplip-3.18.9/base/utils.py", line
> 266, in walkFiles
>       names = os.listdir(root)
>   FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/PolicyKit'
>
>   During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
>
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/home/maddin/user_programs/hplip-3.18.9/base/utils.py", line
> 268, in walkFiles
>       raise StopIteration
>   StopIteration
>
>   The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
>
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "./install.py", line 241, in <module>
>       text_install.start(language, auto, test_depends, test_unknown,
> assume_network, max_retries, enable, disable)
>     File
> "/home/maddin/user_programs/hplip-3.18.9/installer/text_install.py", line
> 86, in start
>       core.init()
>     File
> "/home/maddin/user_programs/hplip-3.18.9/installer/core_install.py", line
> 528, in init
>       self.check_dependencies(callback)
>     File
> "/home/maddin/user_programs/hplip-3.18.9/installer/core_install.py", line
> 621, in check_dependencies
>       self.have_dependencies[d] = self.dependencies[d][3]()
>     File
> "/home/maddin/user_programs/hplip-3.18.9/installer/core_install.py", line
> 1242, in check_policykit
>       if check_file('PolicyKit.conf', "/etc/PolicyKit") and
> check_file('org.gnome.PolicyKit.AuthorizationManager.service',
> "/usr/share/dbus-1/services"):
>     File "/home/maddin/user_programs/hplip-3.18.9/installer/dcheck.py",
> line 108, in check_file
>       for w in utils.walkFiles(dir, recurse=True, abs_paths=True,
> return_folders=False, pattern=f):
>   RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration
>
>
> ####################################################################################################
>
>   So the installer cannot find '/etc/PolicyKit'. This is no wonder,
>   since the name PolicyKit is outdated, as described here:
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polkit . In fact, I do have a folder
>   called '/etc/polkit-1'.
>
>   Note: How I got there:
>
>   Before trying this way, I tried to install via 'pacman -S hplip'. This
> does work, however, hp-check will print: 'warning: CUPSEXT could not be
> loaded. Please check HPLIP installation.'
>   So I looked at this page:
> https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-hp-linux-imaging-printing-warning-cupsext/
> and, even though it is debian here, I thought I'd give it a try installing
> from the run-file instead of via pacman.
>
>   When I try to run something like hp-systray after installing via pacman,
> I do get the error "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cupsext'".
>   When I run hp-doctor, it fails due to not finding '/etc/PolicyKit'
> again:
>
>
> ####################################################################################################
>
>   $ hp-doctor
>
>   HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.18.6)
>   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. 3.18.6)
>   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.
>
>                     \Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/usr/share/hplip/base/utils.py", line 266, in walkFiles
>       names = os.listdir(root)
>   FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/PolicyKit'
>
>   During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
>
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/usr/share/hplip/base/utils.py", line 268, in walkFiles
>       raise StopIteration
>   StopIteration
>
>   The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
>
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "/usr/bin/hp-doctor", line 276, in <module>
>       dep.core.init()
>     File "/usr/share/hplip/installer/core_install.py", line 500, in init
>       self.check_dependencies(callback)
>     File "/usr/share/hplip/installer/core_install.py", line 593, in
> check_dependencies
>       self.have_dependencies[d] = self.dependencies[d][3]()
>     File "/usr/share/hplip/installer/core_install.py", line 1164, in
> check_policykit
>       if check_file('PolicyKit.conf', "/etc/PolicyKit") and
> check_file('org.gnome.PolicyKit.AuthorizationManager.service',
> "/usr/share/dbus-1/services"):
>     File "/usr/share/hplip/installer/dcheck.py", line 108, in check_file
>       for w in utils.walkFiles(dir, recurse=True, abs_paths=True,
> return_folders=False, pattern=f):
>   RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration
>
>
> ####################################################################################################
>
>   So whether I use pacman or the .run - file, the problem seems to be
>   the same in the end.
>
>   Could you please fix this or at least tell me a good workaround?
>
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