printing not working after upgrade to 16.04
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Yesterday I completed distribution upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04. While it was a lengthy process everything seemed ok (even though I lost my background picture on desktop but later was able to restore it to what it was before upgrade).
However, today I tried to print something and it fails. I have an HP P1102w, and it worked perfectly before. I did all recommendations according to your wiki (network is OK, cups is seeing the printer, etc. etc.). I even deleted and reinstalled the printer, but when trying to print test page after installation an error shows up"hplip.plugin". I also reinstalled the hplip package but no help.
Does this have something to do with HP proprietary software and agreeing to some license blah-blah? I remember originally when I installed the printer in 14.04 there was something like that. Now everything is hidden behind the fancy gui stuff and I'm stuck with no printing.
I have another wireless printer, a Lexmark that I previously used as a shared printer from another linux box (where I was able to jury-rig the linux driver), and it worked well. Now I cannot use it, because there is a cups error: There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'Transport endpoint is not connected'. Again, now I have no printer at all.
My network is working well, I can see the other linux box or files on it, but cannot use the shared Lexmark color printer. I remember, during the upgrade there were some terminal messages that could not delete some cups orr ppd related directories, because they were not empty (apparently the script did not use the -rf option for rm). Could this have anything to do with my complete shut out of printing capability? Needless to say, I can print to both HP P1102w or Lexmark printers from the other linux box (an old Fedora-3 distro).
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.