Package: hplip Version: 2.8.4-1 Severity: normal When trying to setup a printer (with LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15) hp-setup fails in two ways: - It cannot locate the PPD file (the list of PPD files is empty, and a PPD has to be selected manually through clicking "Select Other") - It fails to install the printer , resulting in these two entries in the syslog: Jun 13 10:13:27 jorginator python: hp-setup[10755]: error: Printer queue setup failed. Please restart CUPS and try again. Jun 13 10:13:52 jorginator python: hp-setup[10755]: error: Fax queue setup failed. Please restart CUPS and try again.
The printer in question is a HP Color LaserJet 2840. But, when running hp-setup from the command line: LANG="" gksu hp-setup everything worked! -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages hplip depends on: ii adduser 3.107 add and remove users and groups ii coreutils 6.10-6 The GNU core utilities ii cupsys 1.3.7-5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii hplip-data 2.8.4-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - da ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcupsys2 1.3.7-5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libsane 1.0.19-10 API library for scanners ii libsnmp15 5.4.1~dfsg-7.1 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-10.1 SSL shared libraries ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-11 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.2-12 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii python 2.5.2-1 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-dbus 0.82.4-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii python-imaging 1.1.6-2 Python Imaging Library ii python-support 0.8.1 automated rebuilding support for P Versions of packages hplip recommends: ii cupsys-client 1.3.7-5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii hpijs 2.8.4+2.8.4-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs ii hpijs-ppds 2.8.4+2.8.4-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - HP ii hplip-gui 2.8.4-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GU ii openprinting-ppds 20080211-2 OpenPrinting printer support - Pos -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]