On 2/13/25 19:28, King Beowulf wrote:
On 2/13/25 18:15, Dick Steffens wrote:
ailed to execute printer command "lp -P hpljm 148
I click Close and the above list of errors repeats.
The only way to stop the circle is to click all the Ok buttons and be
ready to close xsane as soon as I finish clicking the Close error button.
That printer command may be bogus. I was following some Duck Duck Go
search results and found something that was for a different brand, and
duplicated it with what seems like what it would be for my printer. I
neglected to document what was there when I started.
Any thoughts on what is going on, and how to correct it?
It depends on what CUPS printer drivers you have set up an configured.
For HP, most distros use HPLIP to set up printing and scanning. use
those tools, or open CUPS. CUPS, et al may just have gotten confused
when the printer entered a not ready error state. Did you open the CUPS
web admin page?
http://localhost:631/admin (login with root password. No root? A fool
and his root are soon parted.)
you can poke around and restart the printer if stuck in a not ready state.
If HPLIP is installed, you can use "hp-probe" for device discovery.
or just reboot.
-Ed
I meant to copy the List, but didn't notice Ed's replay didn't go there
and thus there was no Reply List button. Here's my reply to Ed.
I have hplip installed, but don't use the tools directly. I just did
that and scanned the photo I need. It saved the .jpg where I asked it
to, but then gave me an error message:
Failed to execute child process. " (No such file or directory)
While I have the hplip tool open I'm looking at the tab for my printer.
Item 8 in the list says:
([Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/rsteff/.cups/lpoptions')
I don't have a .cups directory in /home/rsteff. I have a .hplip
directory with hplip.conf, hp-systray.lock and hp-toolbox.lock. I assume
the lock files are there because I have those things open. There is also
a directory in there named .gnupg, with an empty directory
private-keys-v1.d, and three files, pubring.kbx, pubring.kbx~, adn
trustdb.gpg.
So, the immediate need has been taken care of, but I still need to
figure out what to do about xsane.
I assume that having a .cups/lpoptions file might be a good thing. Is
there something I need to do to create one?
Thanks for the help.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
