Your message dated Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:02:40 +0000 (UTC) with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line bug in very old version has caused the Debian Bug report #847671, regarding hplip-gui: Setting printer as default printer crashes HP Device Manager to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: hplip-gui Version: 3.16.11+repack0-1 Severity: important When I try to set a printer as the default printer on the HP Device Manager, the Device Manager crashes with the following error: TypeError: argument 1 must be str or None, not bytes During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/hplip/ui5/devmgr5.py", line 2046, in SetDefaultButton_clicked result, result_str = cups.cups_operation(cups.setDefaultPrinter, GUI_MODE, 'qt4', self, self.cur_printer.encode('utf8')) File "/usr/share/hplip/prnt/cups.py", line 857, in cups_operation result, status_str = operation_func(*cups_op_args) File "/usr/share/hplip/prnt/cups.py", line 680, in setDefaultPrinter return cupsext.setDefaultPrinter(printer_name) SystemError: <built-in function setDefaultPrinter> returned a result with an error set Abortado -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_AR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages hplip-gui depends on: ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.10.14-1 ii gksu 2.0.2-9 ii hplip 3.16.11+repack0-1 ii python3-dbus.mainloop.pyqt5 5.7+dfsg-2+b1 ii python3-pyqt5 5.7+dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages hplip-gui recommends: ii python3-notify2 0.3-3 pn xsane | simple-scan | skanlite <none> hplip-gui suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 3.21.2+dfsg0-1 This bug was filed for a very old version of hplip and probably has been fixed in a later upload. So I am manually closing this bug now. In case this bug is still present in the latest version of hplip, please reopen the bug. Unfortunately HP is no longer willing to maintain this software properly and does not even provide a public bug tracker. Meanwhile the Ubuntu Launchpad tracker is ignored as well. Therefore it is very unlikely that HP becomes aware of this bug and will fix it. So if you reopen this bug and really want to have this fixed, please also provide a patch. Thorsten
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