Bug#422887: Last upgrade of hplip broke the package

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 08 May 2007, Nicolas DEGAND wrote:
> When upgrading to 1.6.10-4 from 1.6.10-3, the hplip package breaks with
> this message :
> 
> Paramétrage de hplip (1.6.10-4) ...
> Creating/updating hplip user account...
> Starting HP Linux Printing and Imaging System: hpiod hpssd failed!
> invoke-rc.d: initscript hplip, action "start" failed.
> dpkg : erreur de traitement de hplip (--configure) :
>  le sous-processus post-installation script a retourné une erreur de
> sortie d'état 1
> Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
>  hplip
> 
> If I downgrade, I still encounter this problem. My printer is a HP
> Deskjet 5550.

Well, at this poing the package is mostly installed, so we can debug what is
broken even if it is not cooperating much and pestering you with error
messages.

Make sure no hpiod/hpssd is running (kill them if you have to), and do this:

export LANG=C
export LC_ALL=C
sh -x /etc/init.d/hplip start

And post here the result.

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  Henrique Holschuh