Bug#823602: hplip: Need to re-run hp-setup frequently

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

Hello Kay. Thank you for your report.


On Fri 06 May 2016 at 14:11:34 +0200, Kay Hayen wrote:

> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> at some point in the past, my printer stopped working entirely. Previously
> already, likely because of upgrades, or so I assumed, the existing printer
> would no longer print, a new one added with a re-run of hp-setup, would.
> 
> However, some time ago, that didn't work, and I gave up. After a fresh
> install,
> of the whole system (stretch) things work again, except that now the problem
> is that practically after every boot, every power cycle, the printer needs
> to be
> configured with hp-setup, or else it won't work.
> 
> I got to assume that the firmware of the printer is not present anymore,
> and therefore this happens:

Your device doesn't need a plugin. According to HP it is optional.

> I got this from systemctl -u cups.service:

I think you mean 'journalctl -u cups.service'.

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Is this still an issue for you with an up-to-date Stretch
(hplip 3.16.11+repack0-2)?

Regards,

-- 
Brian.