Description of problem: starting hp-toolbox gives a traceback Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hplip-1.6.12-1.fc6 How reproducible: Always (but suspect it's related to my low toner condition) Steps to Reproduce: 1. run hp-toolbox from shell 2. 3. Actual results: $ hp-toolbox HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.6.12) HP Device Manager ver. 6.3 Copyright (c) 2003-6 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/hplip/ui/devmgr4.py", line 700, in InitialUpdate self.RescanDevices() File "/usr/share/hplip/ui/devmgr4.py", line 732, in RescanDevices self.DeviceListRefresh() File "/usr/share/hplip/ui/devmgr4.py", line 1066, in DeviceListRefresh self.UpdateDevice() File "/usr/share/hplip/ui/devmgr4.py", line 827, in UpdateDevice self.UpdateHistory() File "/usr/share/hplip/ui/devmgr4.py", line 1207, in UpdateHistory self.cur_device.hist = self.cur_device.queryHistory() File "/usr/share/hplip/base/device.py", line 1962, in queryHistory yr, mt, dy, hr, mi, sec, wd, yd, dst, job, user, ec = x.strip().split(',', 14) ValueError: too many values to unpack printing x before the traceback gives: "2007,3,24,9,57,49,5,83,1,0,bjohnson,1804,Low toner.," I'll post this to the hplip-devel mailing list since it appears to be an upstream issue.
HPLIP developers described this as a "possible file conflict" and suggested that I uninstall and reinstall the hplip rpms. That worked, and the error no longer happens. How can that happen with a RPM? I dunno. Unfortunately, I can't debug it further, so I'm going to close it as NOTABUG unless I see it again.
Thinking back on this, I'm pretty sure it was caused by bug #236445.