Bug#333850: (fwd) hplip 0.9.5 bug with network connected printer
Package: hplip
Version: 0.9.5-2
Severity: important
----- Forwarded message from tm <tatu.mannisto@iki.fi> -----
From: tm <tatu.mannisto@iki.fi>
Subject: hplip 0.9.5 bug with network connected printer
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:33:08 +0300
Hello,
Current hplip package (0.9.5-2ubuntu2) has a bug with hp-printing utils when
the printer is connected over the ethernet.
hpssd daemon tries to ping a network connected printer first but as it runs
non-root it will fail in creating a raw icmp socket. This goes mostly
undetected by the system, nothing really happens and no error messages are
reported back to the user.
My simple "fix" was to redefine doOne in /usr/lib/hplip/base/utils.py as
def doOne( destAddr, timeout=10 ):
return 1
to indicate that the pinging is always successful (and if there are no printer
in the net the outcome from the utils is not much different as it is now).
After that at least otherwise non functional utils like hp-info, hp-align,
hp-toolbox etc are working again.
cheers,
tatu
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