Hardy Heron 8.04 (alpha 5 to beta) updated I also get this for my printer: HP Laserjet P1006 $ /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp direct hp "Unknown" "HP Printer (HPLIP)"
the problem seems to be with libqt3-mt as the file attribute is 640 for one of its files I have filed this as a separate bug: $ ls -l /etc/qt3/ total 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 761 2008-04-10 08:37 qt_plugins_3.3rc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 975 2008-01-21 21:01 qtrc as a normal user: $ hp-toolbox HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2) HP Device Manager ver. 11.0 Copyright (c) 2001-7 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. QSettings: failed to open file '/etc/qt3/qt_plugins_3.3rc' error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_P1006?serial=AC094VM warning: Device not found error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_P1006?serial=AC094VM warning: Device not found with root priviledges it's normal: $ gksu hp-toolbox HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.2) HP Device Manager ver. 11.0 Copyright (c) 2001-7 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. I filed it as a separate bug for libqt3-mt bug 214962 -- [Hardy]HP printer is not detected properly by HPLIP https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181242 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs