Bug#912768: hplip-data: hp-toolbox fsck
On Sun 04 Nov 2018 at 22:44:47 +0100, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, Brian Potkin wrote:
> >
> > Can we just forget about the bug you reported for a while and, to begin
> > with, get you printing satisfactorily?
>
> But than you forget about the scanning, don't you, which is the major
> part of the problem.
Nothing was forgotten; we were going step by step and dealing with
printing first. In any case, scanning was mentioned in another post.
Please see below for the detail.
You seem to be happy with printing, so we will leave that aspect of
the issue.
> > Why tie yourself into the tyranny of vendor supplied drivers? Get your
> > cups back to 2.2.8-5
>
> But that's what it is at. Both testing _and_ unstable:
That's fine.
> $ apt-cache policy cups
> cups:
> Installed: 2.2.8-5
> Candidate: 2.2.8-5
> Version table:
> 2.3~b5-2 59
> 59 http://deb.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64
> Packages
> 2.2.8-5 500
> 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
> 99 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
>
> > and purge hplip and everything it pulled in. Have
> > the printer on the network and doing DNS-SD (Bonjour) broadcasting.
> > Purge cups-browsed. Now do
> >
> > lpstat -e
> >
> > What do you get?
>
> $ lpstat -e
> HP-ColorLaserJet-MFP-M278-M281
>
> already gives me that (with the tyranny of vendor supplied drivers,
> duplex too) and cups-browsed is already purged and avahi-daemon is not
> installed.
avahi-deamon is essential; there were no instructions to uninstall it.
Without it you will be unable to detect the DNS-SD broadcasts of the
printer/scanner device. Put it back.
> AFAICT, m281fdw should be supported since some time (before 3.18.10),
> but came out with new bug(s) that make it unusable :( Is there a way
> to find out narrow down the details? Other distributions find
> appropriate to identify, patch and feed back on bugs. Is debian doing
> that too?
For scanning do
apt install libsane-hpaio --no-install-recommends
Then post the outputs of
lpstat -l -e
and
scanimage -L
Cheers,
Brian.
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