Bug#386021: hplip: officejet 6210 not recognized
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > Please delete your printer from CUPS, and readd it to get a new PPD and
> > clean CUPS config (CUPS updates from 1.1.x to 1.2.x are also a source of
> > trouble). You may use hp-setup to reinstall the printer if you want.
>
> That fixed it. Thanks.
Ok. Please install apt-listchanges, and ask it to show you the NEWS files.
It will help you.
> > Also, make sure hpiod is running as root. If it is not, please tell me so.
> > To check that, run "ps auxwww|grep hpiod". The output should show "root" in
> > the first column, and "/usr/sbin/hpiod" in the last one.
>
> The ps gives:
>
> hplip 17586 0.0 0.1 13056 1220 ? Ss Sep02 0:00 /usr/sbin/hpiod
>
> and 'lsof /usr/sbin/hpiod' gives:
>
> COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
> hpiod 17586 hplip txt REG 254,1 98456 901213 /usr/sbin/hpiod
Did you allow the package to overwrite all /etc files? hpiod for 1.6.x
needs to run as root in most systems because of libusb...
> I see that the change to root happened with hplip-0.9.9-1 back in March
> but we're now at 1.6.7-2. Has it reverted? Should I restart CUPS?
Just stop hplip, check with ps and kill hpiod or python hpssd if any are
still running, and restart hplip. It will restart cups on its own.
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