Ubuntu
system-config-printer package

  1. Bug #147369
  2. Comment #40

Comment 40 for bug 147369

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dodgy_pro (dodgy-pro-deactivatedaccount) wrote : PLEASE PAY ATTENTION

Please pay attention!!!

We were all happy yesterday about the fix offered by David (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9682810/C%3A%5Cdes%5Ctmp%5C55-hpmud.rules) and it worked indeed!

BUT! Today after the everyday update of my system, a new hplip was downloaded, which I expected to include the fix. It indeed included a "55-hpmud.rules" file, though it had some differences with the one offered here AND IT CAUSES NEW PROBLEMS for me at least.

The printer is correctly recognised and installed, but it only works through System/Administration/Printing (I can print test pages), BUT NOWHERE ELSE (for example printing from OpenOffice). The HPLIP tool also DOES NOT recognise the printer after the installation.

The difference between the two files (the one given us here and the one taken through the update process) concern different permissions and owners ("root" instead of "lp" and "0664" instead of "0666"). I tried the old file and it works fine but the new does NOT!

Please check it out!