Bug 186213 - hp-setup errors looking for fax files
Summary: hp-setup errors looking for fax files
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: hplip
Version: 5
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
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: 189024 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-22 09:50 UTC by Bernard Johnson
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-04-19 08:41:10 UTC
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Description Bernard Johnson 2006-03-22 09:50:18 UTC
Description of problem:
Setting up a fax capable device (HP Color LaserJet 2840 in this case) using
hp-setup causes an error.

Looking at the spec
(http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/hplip/FC-5/hplip.spec?rev=1.52&view=auto)
it appears that the removal of the Fax files was intentional:
# Don't package hpfax yet.
rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/cups/backend/hpfax
rm -f %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/cups/model/HP-Fax*

However, I don't believe that this is sufficient.  Unless I'm mistaken, you also
need to edit models.xml and change <fax type="1"/> to <fax type="0"/> for each
fax capable printer or it will look for the fax PPD file and print an error.

Also, what about /usr/bin/hp-sendfax?  How useful is that if faxing is disabled.
 It gives errors as well (because there is no fax queue).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hplip-0.9.8-6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. hp-setup a fax capable device
2. hp-sendfax
3.
  
Actual results:
This is the last portion of the printer setup:
FAX QUEUE SETUP

Please enter a name for this fax queue (m=use model
name:'HP_Color_LaserJet_2840_fax'*, q=quit) ?
 Using queue name: HP_Color_LaserJet_2840_fax
 [ERROR]: Unable to find HP fax PPD file! Please check you HPLIP installation
and try again.


Expected results:
No error or even better, a working fax device.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bernard Johnson 2006-03-22 10:00:24 UTC
Actually, upon further inspection, there is a
/usr/share/hplip/fax/ppd/HP-Fax-hplip.ppd file, however, hp-setup is looking in
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/HP/color_laser/ for the file.  This can be
confirmed by copying the ppd file and running hp-setup.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2006-03-27 17:59:46 UTC
How about with the test update?

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-March/msg01594.html

Comment 3 Bernard Johnson 2006-03-27 18:13:58 UTC
No, same problem.

Also, rawhide has the same problem (as you probably expected by this point)

Comment 4 Bernard Johnson 2006-03-27 19:35:36 UTC
Is this a clue that there should be a symlink from
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/HP/color_laserjet/HP-Fax-lplip.ppd to
/usr/share/hplip/fax/ppd/HP-Fax-hplip.ppd ??

http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/updates.php#rel099
22. HPLIP now installs HP-Fax-hplip.ppd independent of HPIJS. HPLIP installs
HP-Fax-hplip.ppd into $(datadir)/HP directory, but HPIJS creates the symlink
from cups/model/foomatic-ppd to $(datadir)/HP.

Comment 5 Bernard Johnson 2006-04-14 07:50:08 UTC
It seems the config file points to a non-existant directory.  This change allows
the ppd for the fax to be found and the fax queue to be setup:

--- hplip.conf.orig     2006-03-24 10:37:14.000000000 -0700
+++ hplip.conf  2006-04-14 01:34:41.000000000 -0600
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 [dirs]
 home=/usr/share/hplip
 run=/var/run
-ppd=/usr/share/ppd/HP
+ppd=/usr/share/hplip/fax/ppd

 # Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
 [configure]


Comment 6 Bernard Johnson 2006-04-15 00:41:58 UTC
Sorry, I didn't notice there was a new rpm in updates-testing.  I installed
hplip-0.9.10-1.2 and I see now that you've moved the ppds to match the path in
the hplip.conf file.  Now my FC-5 system has the same problem (bugzilla #189024)
as my rawhide system.

Comment 7 Bernard Johnson 2006-04-17 16:41:06 UTC
*** Bug 189024 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Bernard Johnson 2006-04-17 16:46:42 UTC
Tim, I think this all boils down to the PPD files must all reside in some
central location, be that the foomatic directory, or a /usr/share/ppd directory.
 Since the hplip file now only points to the /usr/share/ppd directory that
contains the HP-Fax ppd file, that is all that can be found (which was why I
filed #189024).  If I change the path in my hplip.conf to point to
usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD directory, and then symbolically link my HP-Fax
ppd file to somewhere in that structure (I used
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/HP/all_in_one), then everything works great
and both ppd files are found as they should be.

Comment 9 Tim Waugh 2006-04-18 17:43:09 UTC
Okay, let's try hplip-0.9.10-1.3.

Comment 10 Bernard Johnson 2006-04-19 03:06:50 UTC
[bjohnson@localhost ~]$ rpm -q hplip
hplip-0.9.10-1.3
[bjohnson@localhost ~]$ rpm -ql hplip | grep Fax
/usr/share/hplip/fax/ppd/HP-Fax-hplip.ppd
[bjohnson@localhost ~]$

Comment 11 Tim Waugh 2006-04-19 08:08:56 UTC
It's in the hpijs package.

Comment 12 Bernard Johnson 2006-04-19 08:31:14 UTC
I thought I had looked there too, but I was mistaken.  Anyway, I cleared all my
cups queues, ran hp-setup, and added both a printer and a fax with no problem
whatsoever.  Cake.  Thanks.


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