On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > > when I run hp-plugin on my laptop (debian/stretch), it says > driver plugin for HPLIP 3.16.11 already installed ... > (the hplip package version is 3.16.11) > > if I do that on my desktop (debian/buster), I get: > error: Unable to open /data/home/frenkiel/.hplip/hp-plugin.lock lock file. > (the hplip package version is 3.18.12) Guess... > sudo hp-plugin gives: > warning: It is not recommended to run 'hp-plugin' in a root mode. Perhaps you succeeded running hp-plugin once as root and it created the lock file (/data/home/frenkiel/.hplip/hp-plugin.lock) with root permission? What does "ls -l /data/home/frenkiel/.hplip/hp-plugin.lock" say? (or even better: "ls -al /data/home/frenkiel/.hplip", so we can see the access metadata of the directory too). Cheers -- t
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