I can confirm this bug. I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 and have a HP Laser Jet 6P on my parallel port. It worked fine before the upgrade.
I reported under bug #367457 on 4-26-09 Logs attached to that bug. $ lsmod | grep lp lp 17156 0 paraport 42220 2 ppdev,lp $ lsmod | grep ppdev ppdev 15620 0 parport 42220 2 ppdev,lp $ dmesg | grep par [ 0.144001] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware [ 0.145797] pci 0000:00:1e.0: transparent bridge [ 3.075566] PM: Resume from partition 8:1 [ 23.587535] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver $ lpinfo -v network socket network beh direct hal direct hpfax direct hp network http network ipp network lpd direct scsi serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200 serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200 network smb -- Cannot set up parallel port printer on Ubuntu 9.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369850 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