On Mon 05 Nov 2018 at 21:41:58 +0100, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2018, Brian Potkin wrote: > > On Sun 04 Nov 2018 at 23:21:14 +0000, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > > > avahi-deamon is essential; there were no instructions to uninstall it. > > > Without it you will be unable to detect the DNS-SD broadcasts of the > > > printer/scanner device. Put it back. > > > > Please forget about this, it is nonsense. > > Right. I'll say that much. I don't intend to follow the avahi track. > > I just wish the bugs are fixed in 3.18.10+dfsg0-1, specially when > patches are readily available. Just like other distributions (ubuntu, > mint, arch, fedora, and so on do already) do. So, please patch. The > little I digged in upstream bug DB, reported bugs (those that concern > me) seem to be buried, although solutions exist :( > > 3.17.10+repack0-5 (in testing) is working for me as expected (with a > minimally patched models.dat). The downgraded to 3.17.10+repack0-5 in > unstable (with the same patch) is also usable, but not working as > well. I see this kind of messages in the syslog (in unstable): > > hp-toolbox(UI)[1127]: warning: Supplies information not available for this > device. > /hpfax: [1292]: error: Failed to create/var/spool/cups/tmp/.hplip > xpraforwarder: '/usr/lib/cups/backend/xpraforwarder' > python3: io/hpmud/hpmud.c 246: invalid channel_open state, current > io_mode=raw/uni service=HP-MESSAGE > hp:/net/HP_ColorLaserJet_MFP_M278-M281?ip=192.168.x.y > hpcups[3963]: prnt/hpcups/Hbpl1.cpp 52: Hbpl1 constructor : m_szLanguage = > HBPL1 > hp[7978]: prnt/backend/hp.c 919: ERROR: null print job total=0 > > and others. > > The hplip* packages are highly rated in popcon (~40%). So, that shows > the importance of stabilizing the hplip* packages.
It would be useful to have what happens with scanimage -d "hpaio:/net/HP_ColorLaserJet_MFP_M278-M281?ip=192.168.x.y" > out.pnm for 3.18.10+dfsg0-1. Does the scanner work? Do you get out.pnm? Cheers, Brian.
