[SOLVED] Printer won't work after updates

[MoeNeigh]

I'm using an HP PSC 2200 Series (2210) printer, which has worked fine it seems like forever. But with some of the latest updates, it stopped working. I tried the "sudo hp-setup" command, and this is what I get. Did one of the new files that points to some file no longer point to the correct file? This is what I get when I try to run hp-setup:

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.8 )
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0

Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-username" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Searching... (bus=usb, search=(None), desc=0)

"Owned by"? Is this some kind of privilege thingy that has suddently been "revoked"?

If I run the setup through the HP setup (GUI), it detects the printer, but hangs and never finishes setting it up.

I restarted my computer and ran an old Freespire Live CD and was able to do a little bit of printing that way, but that's kind of a cumbersome way to get the job done.

[skunk]

Re: Printer won't work after updates

You should always use kdesudo to start graphical programs as root.

[MoeNeigh]

Re: Printer won't work after updates

You should always use kdesudo to start graphical programs as root.

I tried that also, no good.

Without anything, i.e. no "sudo" and no "kdesudo", I get the graphical hp setup. I finally let it run until I got the following error, which indicates something is missing that maybe wasn't missing before the updates:

/error: No PPD found for model psc_2200_series using new algorithm. Trying old algorithm...
error: No PPD found for model psc_2200 using old algorithm.

PPD = postscript printer description (according to acronymfinder.com)
So how do I get one of those PPDs?

[MoeNeigh]

Re: Printer won't work after updates

Well, my ISP changed my static IP address today, so I had to restart CUPS to solve the problem:

Here are the steps (which I modified for my particular situation) after researching restarting CUPS which hp-setup finally "told" me to do:

Edit the cups config file like this

* sudo kate /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

You will probably see a section like this:

# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen localhost:631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock

Add this line to it:

* Listen 111.222.333.444

Assuming 111.222.333.444 is your servers ip address. Restart cups with

* sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

Rerun the command: hp-setup