Martin, Julian, Has ubuntu been able to make any headway on this.
I am about at the point with debian/hpoj to revert hpoj to run as root, allowing access to the parallel port. Thanks, Mark On Friday 06 January 2006 06:16, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Hi Martin! > > Could you have a look at this bug. How can the Ubuntu patch work at > all given the point below? ptal-mlcd needs access to the IO ports, > doesn't it? Isn't it necessary for the daemon to start as root to get > the ports it needs and then to drop privileges? > > Julian > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:10:55AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:25:13PM +1100, Mike Williams wrote: > > > Package: hpoj > > > Version: 0.91-9 > > > Severity: important > > > > > > I can no longer print to my parallel-port OfficeJet K80 printer. > > > > > > When probing using "ptal-init setup", it reports > > > > > > *** ptal-mlcd failed to start! Check syslog file for error > > > messages. > > > > > > /var/log/lpr.log contains: > > > > > > Nov 17 21:21:33 kumara ptal-mlcd: FATAL ERROR at ParPort.cpp:48, > > > dev=<mlc:par:probe>, pid=6847, e=1, t=1132222893 > > > Access denied to parallel port! > > > > It seems that the problem might be something like this: the non-root > > daemon patch applied to fix bug#298064 means that ptal-init tries to > > run ptal-mlcd as hpojlp:lp. But ptal-mlcd calls iolp(3), which is > > refused by the kernel when called by a non-root user, or so it would > > appear. > > > > I'm not sure whether this is the reason for the breakage, but it sure > > looks likely. I'm having no problems on my out-of-date testing system > > running hpoj version 0.91-4, but have no joy at all on my unstable > > system. > > > > Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
