HPLIP

PPD file not found for Deskjet 1050 J410

Asked by David Grant

On running hp-setup on Fedora 15 64 bit no PPD file is found:

/warning: No PPD found for model deskjet_1050_j410_series using new algorithm. Trying old algorithm...
error: No PPD found for model deskjet_1050_j410 using old algorithm.
error: No appropriate print PPD file found for model deskjet_1050_j410_series

hp-check shows the following:
Summary: No errors or warnings.
although on looking at the output this was found:
Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
error: Could not access file: No such file or directory

Browsing through the directories of .ppd files did not show any ppd file which seemed to be for the deskjet 1050.

This system is dual-boot and the driver works correctly on Windows XP 32 bit.

I have initially tried using the yum version of hplip and later when this did not work installed hplip using the automatic installer from the hplipopensource site with the same result. The libsane-hpaio.x86_64 rpm is installed through yum. I have used "setenforce 0" prior to running hp-setup again with the same result. I note that the contents of /usr/share/ppd/HP show no deskjet ppds only laserjet, business-inkjet designjet and a few others, similarly for /usr/share/cups/model /usr/share/cups/model/HP and /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/HP although /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/PPD/HP does contain the file HP_DesignJet_1050C_PS3.ppd.gz the closest looking file I can find although I have not tried this since I think it is likely not the correct one.

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Ani Balakrishnan (anib) said : 		#1

Hi,

 For HP Deskjet 1050 J410 the minimum HPLIP version required is 3.10.6 and for Fedora 15 support, HPLIP-3.1.7 release is required. If your machine has lower hplip version please update to 3.11.7.

And don't use HP_DesignJet_1050C_PS3.ppd as these two devices are totally different.

Could you please paste the result of command 'hp-check -t' here?

Thanks and Regards
Ani Balakrishnan

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David Grant (davidgrant-i) said : 		#2

I tried initially with the yum repository hplip which was version 3.11.5. However when this did not work I installed version 3.11.7 using hplip-3.11.7.run

Output of hp-check -t:

[root@localhost ~]# hp-check -t

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.11.7)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 14.3

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.

Note: hp-check can be run in three modes:
1. Compile-time check mode (-c or --compile): Use this mode before compiling the
HPLIP supplied tarball (.tar.gz or .run) to determine if the proper dependencies
are installed to successfully compile HPLIP.
2. Run-time check mode (-r or --run): Use this mode to determine if a distro
supplied package (.deb, .rpm, etc) or an already built HPLIP supplied tarball
has the proper dependencies installed to successfully run.
3. Both compile- and run-time check mode (-b or --both) (Default): This mode
will check both of the above cases (both compile- and run-time dependencies).

Saving output in log file: hp-check.log

Initializing. Please wait...

---------------
| SYSTEM INFO |
 ---------------

Basic system information:
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 16 04:10:59 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Distribution:
fedora 15

Checking Python version...
OK, version 2.7.1 installed

Checking PyQt 4.x version...
OK, version 4.8.3 installed.

Checking for CUPS...
Status: scheduler is not running
Version: 1.4.8
error_log is set to level: warn

Checking for dbus/python-dbus...
dbus daemon is running.
python-dbus version: 0.83.0

------------------------------------
| COMPILE AND RUNTIME DEPENDENCIES |
 ------------------------------------

note: To check for compile-time only dependencies, re-run hp-check with the -c parameter (ie, hp-check -c).
note: To check for run-time only dependencies, re-run hp-check with the -r parameter (ie, hp-check -r).

Checking for dependency: CUPS - Common Unix Printing System...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: CUPS image - CUPS image development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libjpeg - JPEG library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libpthread - POSIX threads library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libtool - Library building support services...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libusb - USB library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PIL - Python Imaging Library (required for commandline scanning with hp-scan)...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PolicyKit - Administrative policy framework...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python devel - Python development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python libnotify - Python bindings for the libnotify Desktop notifications...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python XML libraries...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python 2.3 or greater - Required for fax functionality...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Reportlab - PDF library for Python...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: scanimage - Shell scanning program...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE...
OK, found.

----------------------
| HPLIP INSTALLATION |
 ----------------------

Currently installed HPLIP version...
HPLIP 3.11.7 currently installed in '/usr/share/hplip'.

Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:
# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.

[hplip]
version=3.11.7

[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/cups/model/HP
ppdbase=/usr/share/cups/model
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-3.11.7
icon=/usr/share/applications
cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
drv=/usr/share/cups/drv/hp

# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
network-build=yes
pp-build=no
gui-build=yes
scanner-build=yes
fax-build=yes
dbus-build=yes
cups11-build=no
doc-build=yes
shadow-build=no
hpijs-install=no
foomatic-drv-install=no
foomatic-ppd-install=no
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no
hpcups-install=yes
cups-drv-install=yes
cups-ppd-install=no
internal-tag=3.11.7
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt4
qt3=no
qt4=yes
policy-kit=no
hpijs-only-build=no
lite-build=no
udev-acl-rules=no
hpcups-only-build=no
hpijs-only-build=no

Current contents of '/var/lib/hp/hplip.state' file:
# hplip.state - HPLIP runtime persistent variables.

[plugin]
installed=0
eula=0

Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
error: Could not access file: No such file or directory

--------------------------
| DISCOVERED USB DEVICES |
 --------------------------

  Device URI Model
  -------------------------------- ---------------------------
  hp:/usb/Deskjet_1050_J410_series HP Deskjet 1050 J410 series
  ?serial=CN************

---------------------------------
| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES |
 ---------------------------------

lpstat
------
Type: Unknown
Device URI: Connection refused

----------------------
| SANE CONFIGURATION |
 ----------------------

'hpaio' in '/etc/sane.d/dll.conf'...
OK, found. SANE backend 'hpaio' is properly set up.

Checking output of 'scanimage -L'...
device `hpaio:/usb/Deskjet_1050_J410_series?serial=CN1173H60S05HW' is a Hewlett-Packard Deskjet_1050_J410_series all-in-one

---------------------
| PYTHON EXTENSIONS |
 ---------------------

Checking 'cupsext' CUPS extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'pcardext' Photocard extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'hpmudext' I/O extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'scanext' SANE scanning extension...
OK, found.

-----------------
| USB I/O SETUP |
 -----------------

Checking for permissions of USB attached printers...

HP Device 0x8911 at 002:002:
    Device URI: hp:/usb/Deskjet_1050_J410_series?serial=CN1173H60S05HW
    Device node: /dev/bus/usb/002/002
    Mode: 0660
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: dev/bus/usb/002/002
# owner: root
# group: lp
user::rw-
user:******:rw-
group::rw-
group:lp:rw-
mask::rw-
other::---

---------------
| USER GROUPS |
 ---------------

root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel

-----------
| SUMMARY |
 -----------

No errors or warnings.

Done.

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David Grant (davidgrant-i) said : 		#3

Apologies. I have just discovered the reason for the failure: the CUPS service was not running. After starting CUPS "chkconfig cups on" and "/etc/init.d/cups start" as root, the printer was detected and installed automatically by Fedora. I ran hp-setup to see if it would find the ppd file and it found the following drv:///hp/hpcups.drv/hp-deskjet_1050_j410_series.ppd. I did not complete the hp-setup since as it is now working I don't want to mess with it:) Incidentally the ppd file has still not been copied to /usr/share/cups/model/HP but I did find it in the hplip-3.11.7/ppd/hpcups directory created in the same directory that hplip-3.11.7.run is run from although as it turned out I didn't need this. Thanks for responding to my question.