Bug 538352 - Setup on HP network printer fails.
Summary: Setup on HP network printer fails.
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: hplip
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-18 10:58 UTC by Randy Berry
Modified: 2011-01-12 05:29 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: hplip-3.10.9-9.fc14
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-01-12 05:25:21 UTC
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Description Randy Berry 2009-11-18 10:58:11 UTC
Description of problem:
Setup on HP network printer fails. 

Photosmart C6300 Series

Setup does not found printer on network, when manual detection is used printer is found but will not install. 

/error:  Printer queue setup failed.  Please restart CUPS and try again.

I have restarted cups and same problem persists. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hplip-3.9.8-21.fc12.i686


How reproducible:
run 'hp-setup'

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Proceed through network printer setup steps and printer is not found.
2. Select advanced options, enter printer IP and printer is found.
3. Select printer and apply "/error:  Printer queue setup failed.  Please restart CUPS and try again." appears and hp-setup exits.

  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
This may be an upstream issue. I noticed that HP does not have an hplip version for F12 yet. So this bug may have to wait for upstream to update their own drivers.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2009-11-18 13:05:16 UTC
Is there a reason you need to use hp-setup instead of system-config-printer (available from System->Administration->Printing)?  If you use that instead, what happens?

Although I want to fix bugs in hp-setup, I'm more interested in getting the manufacturer-neutral solution working for everyone.

Comment 2 Randy Berry 2009-11-18 15:12:19 UTC
I tried system-config-printer and it worked fine. I just wanted to note that there are some issues in case someone chose to go the hp-setup route to install their printer.

Comment 3 Peter Fuchs 2010-05-02 09:40:51 UTC
I would like to ask for raising the severity of this bug to "critical" as I urgently need a fix for this issue.

For several weeks I am not able to use my fax anymore (system-config-printer does not set this up, see bug 585109). In addition to this, the hp-setup utility is very convenient to use and worked fine before and the little applet tool "hplip-gui" allows printer administration, displays ink level etc.

Something must have changed between cups/hplip that stops this from working and I would really appreciate if this problem could be solved quickly.

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2010-05-02 09:52:57 UTC
Peter, are you also seeing *this* bug, the one where setup fails with an error message "Printer queue setup failed.  Please restart CUPS and try again."?

Previously you had been seeing bug #583951.  Have you applied the latest package updates?  In particular I believe PyQt4-4.7.3-1.fc12 and sip-4.10.2-1.fc12 provide the fix for the bug in which hp-setup would crash with a segmentation fault.

Comment 5 Peter Fuchs 2010-05-02 19:07:29 UTC
Yes, I definitely run into *this* problem. Reproducable every time on two different systems trying to access a HP OfficeJet Pro 7680 via network.

I have all available patches applied:
---
[peter@samoa ~]$ rpm -q PyQt4 sip
PyQt4-4.7.3-1.fc12.x86_64
sip-4.10.2-1.fc12.x86_64
---

My feeling is, that the PyQt-error was just a subsequent problem of the root problem (hp-setup fails to create CUPS print queues).

Please let me know if I can do anything to assist in solving this issue.

Comment 6 Peter Fuchs 2010-05-30 07:51:35 UTC
Bug still exists in Fedora 13...
:-(

Comment 7 Tad Marko 2010-06-28 00:12:23 UTC
In Fedora 13, I encountered this bug. It's pretty important as I need to set up a network scanner and fax, which I don't think I can do natively through CUPS. I was going to report this bug when I discovered that it this report. After trying a few things, I discovered that I could add the printer/scanner/fax with no printers configured (I am not sure if this part is necessary) and using hp-setup as root via sudo: sudo hp-setup. I created the printer, scanner and fax object with no problem. 

Tim Waugh: I understand your sentiments regarding generic support, but HP goes a lot further than most companies when it comes to Linux support. It might be nice to give them a little bit of support back.

Comment 8 Peter Fuchs 2010-06-28 06:12:01 UTC
I can confirm that everything works fine when running hp-setup as root.

Comment 9 Mircea Sava 2010-07-15 12:04:17 UTC
same problem with latest version in fedora 13

Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 06:13:10 UTC
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Comment 11 Randy Berry 2010-11-04 11:13:03 UTC
This bug seems to have been fixed for me. Leaving open because I am not sure if the bug still exists for others.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2010-12-03 17:31:51 UTC
hplip-3.10.9-8.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/hplip-3.10.9-8.fc14

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2010-12-03 17:33:47 UTC
hplip-3.10.9-8.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/hplip-3.10.9-8.fc13

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2010-12-05 00:40:36 UTC
hplip-3.10.9-8.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update hplip'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/hplip-3.10.9-8.fc14

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2010-12-15 17:13:43 UTC
hplip-3.10.9-9.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/hplip-3.10.9-9.fc14

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2011-01-12 05:23:49 UTC
hplip-3.10.9-9.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2011-01-12 05:28:56 UTC
hplip-3.10.9-9.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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