HP Icon for the monitoring system is on desktop and not in the menu bar.

This is an output from the - hp-check -t

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.5)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 14.0

Copyright (c) 2001-8 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 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Apr 19 12:39:34 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Distribution:
fedora 8

HPOJ running?
No, HPOJ is not running (OK).

Checking Python version...
OK, version 2.5.1 installed

Checking PyQt version...
OK, version 3.17 installed.

Checking SIP version...
OK, Version 4.7.3 installed

Checking for CUPS...
Status: scheduler is running
Version: 1.3.7
warning: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file not found or not accessible.

Checking for dbus/python-dbus...
dbus daemon is running.
python-dbus version: 0.82.0

------------------------------------
| 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-ddk - CUPS driver development kit...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: cups-devel- Common Unix Printing System 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: ppdev - Parallel port support kernel module....
error: NOT FOUND! This is a REQUIRED/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Please make sure that this dependency is installed before installing or running HPLIP.
To install this dependency, execute this command:
su -c "/sbin/modprobe ppdev"

Checking for dependency: PyQt - Qt interface for Python...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: python-ctypes - A foreign function library for Python...
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 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 2.8.5 currently installed in '/usr/share/hplip'.

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

[hpssd]
# Note: hpssd does not support dynamic ports
# Port 2207 is the IANA assigned port for hpssd
port=2207

[hplip]
version=2.8.5

[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/cups/model/HP
ppdbase=/usr/share/cups/model
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-2.8.5
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
foomatic-drv-install=yes
foomatic-ppd-install=no
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=yes
internal-tag=2.8.5.23

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

  Device URI Model
  -------------------------------- --------------------------
  hp:/usb/Photosmart_C6200_series? HP Photosmart C6200 series
  serial=MY79EH51DT0506

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

Photosmart_C6200_series
-----------------------
Type: Printer
Installed in HPLIP?: Yes, using the hp: CUPS backend.
Device URI: hp:/usb/Photosmart_C6200_series?serial=MY79EH51DT0506
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/Photosmart_C6200_series.ppd
PPD Description: HP PhotoSmart C6200 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
Printer status: printer Photosmart_C6200_series is idle. enabled since Sat 10 May 2008 06:50:32 PM PDT
Communication status: Good

----------------------
| 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/Photosmart_C6200_series?serial=MY79EH51DT0506' is a Hewlett-Packard Photosmart_C6200_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 0x6a11 at 001:005:
    Device URI: hp:/usb/Photosmart_C6200_series?serial=MY79EH51DT0506
    Device node: /dev/bus/usb/001/005
    Mode: 0666
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: dev/bus/usb/001/005
# owner: root
# group: lp
user::rw-
user:micro:rw-
group::rw-
group:lp:rw-
mask::rw-
other::rw-

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

error: 1 error or warning.

Summary of needed commands to run to satisfy missing dependencies:
su -c "/sbin/modprobe ppdev"

Please refer to the installation instructions at:
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/index.html

Done.

If you logout of your X session and log back in does it go back to the correct spot?

Thanks.

A

I have done that as well as rebooting and reinstalling the software...

I notice that when I am navigating through desktops it shows it as a window in the upper left corner if that possible helps. I think it has repositioned it as a window instead of an icon in the menu bar and placed it on the desktop...

Can you close the systray and run hp-systray any effect? Can you email me a screenshot perhaps?

<email address hidden>

A

I'm really really new to fedora and linux in general. So, you would have to walk me through it. I'm here and waiting...

you meant the systray for HP, I got that stoped and then what do I do to run hp-systray?

If you right click on the hplip systray and click close does it exit?

and then open a terminal and run hp-systray.

For the screenshot you can just click PrintScreen on your keyboard and it should take a screenshot, then you can email it to me like any attachment.

Hope this helps!

A

When I clicked exit it closed the little icon in the upper left hand corner, then I ran the hp-systray and this is what I got - $ hp-systray

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.5)
System Tray Status Service ver. 0.1

Copyright (c) 2001-8 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: Unable to lock /home/micro/.hplip/hp-systray.lock. Is hp-systray already running?

...is it still running. Maybe that is the problem. It's still running so all my fixes can't reset it to the top menu bar?

Run:

ps ax | grep hp-systray

and post the output.

Thanks!

A

Here it is - $ ps ax | grep hp-systray
 3438 ? S 0:00 python /usr/bin/hp-systray
 3488 ? S 0:00 python /usr/bin/hp-systray
29703 pts/0 R+ 0:00 grep hp-systray

Okay run:

sudo kill 3438
sudo kill 3488

then again run:

ps ax | grep hp-systray

and those should processes should be ended. Then try running hp-toolbox and the systray should run correctly..

A

$ su
Password:
[root@localhost micro]# sudo kill 3438
[root@localhost micro]# sudo kill 3438
kill 3438: No such process
[root@localhost micro]# ps ax | grep hp-systray
 3488 ? S 0:00 python /usr/bin/hp-systray
19676 pts/0 R+ 0:00 grep hp-systray

I noticed I did the same thing twice, multitasking big time right now, sorry...

]# ps ax | grep hp-systray
21235 pts/0 R+ 0:00 grep hp-systray

hehe no worries. :)

Looks good, run hp-toolbox and it should auto start the systray..and in theory in the correct place..

A

ok, I ran it and sent you a quick email with a snapshot cause it's back!! Hehehe.........

did I loose ya?

I'm going to setup a system and do some testing with this.

Sorry for the delay!

A

Actually from the screenshot it looks like you are running kde4. if you run hp-systray --qt4 does it go to the right spot?

A

This is a really good question I have gnome running but I also noticed
in my system/preferences menu there is qt4. I have never used it nor do
I know what its for...

micro...

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 20:39 +0000, Aaron Albright wrote:
> Your question #32895 on HPLIP changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/32895
>
> Aaron Albright requested for more information:
> Actually from the screenshot it looks like you are running kde4. if you
> run hp-systray --qt4 does it go to the right spot?
>
> A
>

Okay. I'm working on the install instructions for fedora 9 and I'll post those for you soon as I get them worked out.

A

I can't explain it but from your screenshot it appears to be KDE4...If you are going to be using Fedora 9 soon maybe give that a try? We know there is a problem with kde4 and to fix this in kde4:

Edit .desktop file /etc/xdg/autostart/hplip-systray.desktop and add --qt4 param to hp-systray

so it should appear as "hp-systray --qt4".

Hope this helps.

Aaron