hplip Setting up python3 Errno2
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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hplip (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
This is Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (bionic beaver)
mark@Lexington:~$ apt-cache policy hplip
hplip:
Installed: 3.17.10+repack0-5
Candidate: 3.17.10+repack0-5
Version table:
*** 3.17.10+repack0-5 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
The extensive terminal output, posted below, can also be viewed here: https:/
After I could not repair the hplip causing the printer/scanner dialogue windows to take 5 minutes to come onscreen, I reinstalled Ubuntu 18.04. After running all updates on the OS, I reinstalled hplip (or so I thought). The hplip did install, the dialogue windows come onscreen almost instantly. There is no HP icon in the system tray and hplip throws an error/warning about this with each reboot. Today, I tried running: sudo apt-get update / upgrade. I was offered a list of upgradeable packages and said Yes to the upgrade. After running the terminal threw a long list of error messages all or almost all related to the hplip, specifically mutter, python3. Python repeatedly reports Errno2.
What appeared in the terminal follows:
mark@Lexington:~$ sudo aptitude upgrade
The following packages will be upgraded:
bind9-host dnsutils gir1.2-mutter-2 gnome-shell gnome-shell-common
google-
libisc-export169 libisc169 libisccc160 libisccfg160 liblwres160
libmutter-2-0 libpython3-stdlib mutter mutter-common python3
python3-distutils python3-gdbm python3-lib2to3 python3-minimal
24 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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(Reading database ... 201838 files and directories currently installed.)
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Setting up python3-minimal (3.6.7-1~18.04) ...
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running python pre-rtupdate hooks for python3.6...
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Setting up libpython3-
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Setting up libisccc160:amd64 (1:9.11.
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Setting up python3 (3.6.7-1~18.04) ...
running python rtupdate hooks for python3.6...
E: py3compile:183: cannot create directory /usr/share/
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error running python rtupdate hook hplip-data
dpkg: error processing package python3 (--configure):
installed python3 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 4
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.
Setting up libisc-
Setting up mutter-common (3.28.3-
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.56.3-
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-shell:
gnome-shell depends on python3; however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package gnome-shell (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up gnome-shell-common (3.28.3-
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Setting up libdns-export1100 (1:9.11.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-gdbm:amd64:
python3-gdbm:amd64 depends on python3 (>= 3.6.6-1~); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
python3-gdbm:amd64 depends on python3 (<< 3.8); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package python3-gdbm:amd64 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent processing triggers for gnome-menus:
gnome-menus depends on python3:any (>= 3.1~); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package gnome-menus (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving triggers unprocessed
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-lib2to3:
python3-lib2to3 depends on python3 (>= 3.6.6-1~); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
python3-lib2to3 depends on python3 (<< 3.8); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package python3-lib2to3 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libdns1100:amd64 (1:9.11.
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-distutils:
python3-distutils depends on python3 (>= 3.6.6-1~); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
python3-distutils depends on python3 (<< 3.8); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
python3-distutils depends on python3-lib2to3 (>= 3.6.4); however:
Package python3-lib2to3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package python3-distutils (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Setting up libisccfg160:amd64 (1:9.11.
Setting up gir1.2-
Setting up mutter (3.28.3-
Setting up libirs160:amd64 (1:9.11.
Setting up libbind9-160:amd64 (1:9.11.
Setting up bind9-host (1:9.11.
Setting up dnsutils (1:9.11.
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
python3
gnome-shell
python3-gdbm:amd64
gnome-menus
python3-lib2to3
python3-distutils
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Setting up python3 (3.6.7-1~18.04) ...
running python rtupdate hooks for python3.6...
E: py3compile:183: cannot create directory /usr/share/
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error running python rtupdate hook hplip-data
dpkg: error processing package python3 (--configure):
installed python3 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 4
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-shell:
gnome-shell depends on python3; however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package gnome-shell (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-gdbm:amd64:
python3-gdbm:amd64 depends on python3 (>= 3.6.6-1~); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
python3-gdbm:amd64 depends on python3 (<< 3.8); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package python3-gdbm:amd64 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent processing triggers for gnome-menus:
gnome-menus depends on python3:any (>= 3.1~); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package gnome-menus (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving triggers unprocessed
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-lib2to3:
python3-lib2to3 depends on python3 (>= 3.6.6-1~); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
python3-lib2to3 depends on python3 (<< 3.8); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package python3-lib2to3 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-distutils:
python3-distutils depends on python3 (>= 3.6.6-1~); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
python3-distutils depends on python3 (<< 3.8); however:
Package python3 is not configured yet.
python3-distutils depends on python3-lib2to3 (>= 3.6.4); however:
Package python3-lib2to3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package python3-distutils (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
python3
gnome-shell
python3-gdbm:amd64
gnome-menus
python3-lib2to3
python3-distutils
Current status: 0 (-24) upgradable.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.