Indeed, I had to boot my laptop today and just found that both /dev/null and /dev/zero weren't writable (660, root/root) ... So I think we can close that bug as it's not the fault of hplip bug an udev issue.
Thank you for the link. -- [apport][feisty] hpssd crashed with IOError in daemonize() https://launchpad.net/bugs/83924 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs