for anyone still running into this problem, i worked around it today by getting the latest HPLIP from https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux- imaging-and-printing (i downloaded 3.17.11) and when installing it i told it to not enable PC/network fax support (it asks near the beginning of the install); also remember to let it uninstall your old version of HPLIP, and allow it to install the dependencies it wants. the setup of the printer continued fine after that, and i now have printing and scanning working properly on this HP M1212nf laser printer i'm testing on a kubuntu 16.04 LTS station. i used xsane to test the scanning capabilities. if you don't need PC/network fax capabilities, this worked for me to get the rest of it working. -- yossman.net/2018-02-18
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to sane-backends in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1627710 Title: sudo hp-setup fails Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I have a network printer - HP LaserJet Professional m1212 nf MFP set as a network printer and working with several other pc (windows). Steps I used: 1. type 'sudo hp-setup' in the terminal, then entering my password. 2. select the second option (network/ethernet/wireless) and click next 3. scan successfully found my printer's ip address 4. click next 5. click add printer 6. seeing a nasty python error in the terminal: """ HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.16.3) Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0 Copyright (c) 2001-15 HP 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. Searching... (bus=net, timeout=5, ttl=4, search=(None) desc=0, method=slp) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 1304, in NextButton_clicked self.showAddPrinterPage() File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 730, in showAddPrinterPage self.readwriteFaxInformation() File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 1099, in readwriteFaxInformation d = fax.getFaxDevice(self.fax_uri, disable_dbus=True) File "/usr/share/hplip/fax/fax.py", line 534, in getFaxDevice return MarvellFaxDevice(device_uri, printer_name, callback, fax_type, disable_dbus) File "/usr/share/hplip/fax/marvellfax.py", line 91, in __init__ sendfax_a_path = os.readlink(sendfax_path+"/hp-sendfax") OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/usr/bin/hp-sendfax' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 1304, in NextButton_clicked self.showAddPrinterPage() File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 730, in showAddPrinterPage self.readwriteFaxInformation() File "/usr/share/hplip/ui4/setupdialog.py", line 1099, in readwriteFaxInformation d = fax.getFaxDevice(self.fax_uri, disable_dbus=True) File "/usr/share/hplip/fax/fax.py", line 534, in getFaxDevice return MarvellFaxDevice(device_uri, printer_name, callback, fax_type, disable_dbus) File "/usr/share/hplip/fax/marvellfax.py", line 91, in __init__ sendfax_a_path = os.readlink(sendfax_path+"/hp-sendfax") OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/usr/bin/hp-sendfax' """ NOTE TO DEVS: Thanks for deving so much but I can't depend on my Ubuntu machine because I can't setup the printer. FOR 6 FUCKING MONTHS. I know you try really hard. But this is a plain failure. It saddens me deeply because I really love Ubuntu. Just convinced a Debian guy to give Unity a try the other day. But I depend on windows for a fucking printer. It sucks, it really does. I wish you'd stop releasing new OSes twice a year and focus on making the ones you do release work. FUCK YOU CANONICAL FOR NOT MANAGING TO FINISH THE JOB YOU HAVE BEEN STARTING SO WELL FOR ALL THESE YEARS. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1627710/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
