On Wednesday 03 March 2010 03:06:24 Olivier Berger wrote: > As far as I can understand, one needs to be a member of the lpadmin group so that the cups client library part of hp-toolbox can start/stop/resume printers managed by cups in the backend. We have documented this in hplip.NEWS since 3.9.2. > Now, if one executes hp-toolbox without being a member of lpadmin, the start/stop button will be useless, failing silently. Not good.. > I already filed a bug upstream about the fact that it fails silently instead of having some GUI dialog for error message (https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/530746). Thanks.. > Now, I think that it should be documented somewhere that such lpadmin group membership is required (assuming that it's Debian-specific), and/or be mentioned in the error message instead of a very generic error. I have now documented this in the hplip.NEWS document, it isn't a Debian specific issue, this is imposed on us through CUPS. > Maybe hp-check could check for this too. Indeed. > --------------- > | USER GROUPS | > --------------- > > olivier dialout cdrom floppy sudo audio video plugdev You don't seem to be a member of lp nor lpadmin. Given that hp-check does print the user groups a simple python mod should present an error message.. I'll leave this bug open until we can modify hp-check.. Mark
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