Bug#953104: hplip: After upgrade to version 3.20.2 of hplip, nothing can be printed
Package: hplip
Version: 3.19.12+dfsg0-4
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Running Debian Testing.
After upgrading to v3.20.2 of hplip, my system could no longer print anything.
Print jobs were being sent
to the printer (display panel illuminated to indicate something was
communicating with the printer) but
would never complete, and jobs eventually timed out with a communication error.
Downgrading to version 3.19.12 of hplip has allowed me to continue printing
again.
The printer is an HP OfficeJet 6700 Premium (an all-in-one-device)
It has been pointed out to me on the Debian User mailing list, that there was a
recent change in CUPS;
>> cups (2.3.1-5) unstable; urgency=medium
>>
>> * Move towards driverless-centered installation:
>> - Drop all printer-driver-* and hplip recommends/suggests
>> * Cleanup all versions from pre- Debian stable
>> * Bump S-V to 4.5.0 without changes needed
>>
which may have some impact on hplip and its interaction with CUPS.
Summary of hp-check runs;
The installed version (3.19.12) hp-check report concludes thus;
Missing Required Dependencies
-----------------------------
error: 'cups' package is missing or 'cups' service is not running.
error: 'libcups2' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libjpeg62-turbo-dev' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libcups2-dev' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'cups-bsd' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'cups-client' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libcupsimage2' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libcupsimage2-dev' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libusb-1.0.0-dev' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libsane-dev' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libsnmp-dev' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'snmp' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'python3-pyqt4' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'gtk2-engines-pixbuf' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libtool' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libtool-bin' package is missing/incompatible
Missing Optional Dependencies
-----------------------------
error: 'avahi-utils' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'python3-notify2' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'python3-dbus.mainloop.qt' package is missing/incompatible
and from 3.20.0;
Missing Required Dependencies
-----------------------------
error: 'cups' package is missing or 'cups' service is not running.
error: 'libcups2' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libjpeg62-turbo-dev' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libcups2-dev' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'cups-bsd' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'cups-client' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libcupsimage2' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libcupsimage2-dev' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libusb-1.0.0-dev' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libsane-dev' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libsnmp-dev' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'snmp' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'python3-pyqt4' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'gtk2-engines-pixbuf' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libtool' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libtool-bin' package is missing/incompatible
Missing Optional Dependencies
-----------------------------
error: 'avahi-utils' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'python3-notify2' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'python3-dbus.mainloop.qt' package is missing/incompatible
CUPS is installed and running, and cups-bsd and cups-client are both installed.
Installing other packages mentioned did nothing to improve the situation.
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii cups 2.3.1-7
ii hplip-data 3.19.12+dfsg0-4
ii libc6 2.29-10
ii libcups2 2.3.1-7
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.16-2
ii libhpmud0 3.19.12+dfsg0-4
ii libpython3.7 3.7.6-1+b1
ii libsane 1.0.27-3.2+b1
ii libsane-hpaio 3.19.12+dfsg0-4
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii printer-driver-hpcups 3.19.12+dfsg0-4
ii python3 3.7.5-3
ii python3-dbus 1.2.16-1
ii python3-gi 3.34.0-6
ii python3-pexpect 4.6.0-1
ii python3-pil 6.2.1-2+b1
ii python3-reportlab 3.5.34-1
ii wget 1.20.3-1+b2
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1
Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.7-5
ii policykit-1 0.105-26
pn printer-driver-postscript-hp <none>
ii sane-utils 1.0.27-3.2+b1
Versions of packages hplip suggests:
pn hplip-doc <none>
ii hplip-gui 3.19.12+dfsg0-4
pn python3-notify2 <none>
pn system-config-printer <none>
-- no debconf information
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