HP LaserJet P1005 unusable in 8.04 and 9.04 & 9.10
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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HPLIP |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
system-config-printer (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Till Kamppeter | ||
Jaunty |
Fix Released
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High
|
Till Kamppeter |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: cups
In Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 I could plug in my HP LaserJet P1005 and Ubuntu would attempt to install a driver. Unfortunately, the driver would install but the printer would not print. I learned that it needed the newest hplip (or at least try it, which Jaunty 9.04 had) so I installed that.
When I plugged the printer in in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04, Ubuntu stated that the driver could not be installed and needed a proprietary extension. It proceeded to run 'sudo hp-setup -u'. Unfortunately the program failed to run and I was unable to get my printer working at that point.
I ran the program manually in the terminal (sudo hp-setup -u) but it failed saying qt4 was unavailable:
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.2)
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.
warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed.
error: hp-plugin requires GUI support (try running with --qt3). Try using interactive (-i) mode.
So I tried it with --qt3 and that failed, but -i worked. Using -i I was able to install the proper plugins (according to the program). I then tried to print and failed to do so three times. Here is my output of /var/log/
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I also tired installing hplip-3.9.2.run manually but that failed (I'll have to post the error later).
I'm not sure who this bug should be filed under, but I'd really like to get this printer working and any help would be appreciated. I'm willing to go through any sort of debugging process you guys throw at me if it helps hplip/cups :)
Related branches
description: | updated |
Changed in cups (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in hplip: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
affects: | cups (Ubuntu) → system-config-printer (Ubuntu) |
Changed in system-config-printer (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
assignee: | nobody → Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
summary: |
- HP LaserJet P1005 unusable in 8.04 and 9.04 & 9.01 + HP LaserJet P1005 unusable in 8.04 and 9.04 & 9.10 |
The fix is simple, debdiff for SRU (or perhaps even direct upload into Jaunty) attached.
The fix is needed to make the automatic firmware download/ installation feature of system- config- printer working with HPLIP 3.9.2.