I have corrected this issue, you can ignore the question! It appears that either during the upgrade process, or during the uninstall / reinstall of hplip / cups, cups service was shut down. Once I restarted the scheduler, the hplip install worked fine.
I just upgraded my desktop to openSuSE 12.2 from 11.3. hplip was upgraded during the process, and I was able to print to my printer, but hp-toolbox would not start. So, I uninstalled hplip via Yast, and reinstalled the version from the openSuSE site with the same results. I uninstalled again, and downloaded the most current version (3.12.10a) from the hplip website. When I attempt the install by running "sh hplip-3.12.10a.run" from a command line, I get the following:
Creating directory hplip-3.12.10a
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing HPLIP 3.12.10a Self Extracting Archive....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.10a)
HPLIP Installer ver. 5.1
Copyright (c) 2001-14 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.
Installer log saved in: hplip-install_Fri-12-Oct-2012_13:55:12.log
warning: CUPSEXT could not be loaded. Please check HPLIP installation.
There is nothing in the log file beyond this same warning message:
hplip-install[7391]: info: :
hplip-install[7391]: info: :[01mHP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.10a)[0m
hplip-install[7391]: info: :[01mHPLIP Installer ver. 5.1[0m
hplip-install[7391]: info: :
hplip-install[7391]: info: :Copyright (c) 2001-14 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
hplip-install[7391]: info: :This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
hplip-install[7391]: info: :This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
hplip-install[7391]: info: :under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
hplip-install[7391]: info: :
hplip-install[7391]: info: :Installer log saved in: [01mhplip-install_Fri-12-Oct-2012_13:55:12.log[0m
hplip-install[7391]: info: :
warning: CUPSEXT could not be loaded. Please check HPLIP installation.
Per "My Computer":
OS: Linux 3.4.6-2.10-desktop x86_64
System: openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)
KDE: 4.8.5 (4.8.5) "release 2"
It appears the install did not get very far, as I cannot run hp-check to provide additional information. No files are found under /usr/share/hplip
