HP Deskjet 1512 is unrecognised on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS with Hplip 3.17.10+repack0-5. installed.

> I suspect the older printer needs Hplip 3.13.8 as the
> "Supported Printers" list showed.

3.13.8 is the *minimum* version required. Give the output
of 'lpinfo -v'.

Brian.

Is there an option to select the 3.13.8 version on the "Supported Printers" page? Seems logical, but I didn't see it.

jjconstr

Output of 'lpinfo -v' is
'Bad file descriptor'

Hplip 3.17.10+repack0-5 exists on my system. If Hplip 3.13.8 is just the minimum, then Hplip 3.17.10 should work. But my printer

does not work from Ubunto OS and it does work from Windows 7 in the dual boot configuration.

> 'Bad file descriptor'

The cups daemon isn't running.

A trouble shooter I came across said"cups not running. To correct- go to main menu, System->administration->services. Look for cups

services. Had trouble following said path, found .cups and .hplip folders both empty under home folder.

Output below may help. I don't understand the second line, apt1.6.12 (amd64). but the hplip version # seems ok if in range required for my printer.

jjconstr@Aspire-5733Z:~$ sudo apt --version hplip
apt 1.6.12 (amd64)
jjconstr@Aspire-5733Z:~$ apt show hplip
Package: hplip
Version: 3.17.10+repack0-5
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Printing Team <email address hidden>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1,601 kB
Depends: adduser, cups, hplip-data (= 3.17.10+repack0-5), libhpmud0 (= 3.17.10+repack0-5), libsane-hpaio (= 3.17.10+repack0-5), lsb-base, printer-driver-hpcups (= 3.17.10+repack0-5), python3-dbus, python3-gi, python3-pexpect, python3-pil, python3-reportlab, wget, python3 (<< 3.7), xz-utils, python3 (>= 3.6~), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcups2 (>= 1.6.0), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libsane1 (>= 1.0.24)
Recommends: avahi-daemon, policykit-1, printer-driver-postscript-hp, sane-utils
Suggests: hplip-doc, hplip-gui, python3-notify2, system-config-printer

Is this fix just a matter of starting the cups daemon?

> Is this fix just a matter of starting the cups daemon?

lpinfo needs the cups.service to give an output. Do

  systemctl start cups

Hi Brian,

Get this

systemctl start cups only goes to next prompt , no output , nothing

lpinfo -v still says bad file descriptor

If I install Hplip version 4.20.3, will that fix the cups problem too?

Just so you know, I dont know my way around the terminal. Im typing only what you have between the single quote marks. If there is some standard thing needs to be added to the commands, I dont know it.
Thanks.
jjconstr

Hello Jerry,

> systemctl start cups only goes to next prompt , no output , nothing

That's ok.

> lpinfo -v still says bad file descriptor

That's not ok. Check that cups is active and running with

  systemctl status cups

> If I install Hplip version 4.20.3, will that fix the cups problem too?

No.

Heres the output:

jjconstr@Aspire-5733Z:~$ systemctl status cups
● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; vendor preset: ena
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Sun 2020-04-26 02:35:53 PDT; 4
     Docs: man:cupsd(8)
  Process: 8389 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -l (code=killed, signal=TERM)
 Main PID: 8389 (code=killed, signal=TERM)

Apr 26 02:35:53 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Service hold-off time ove
Apr 26 02:35:53 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Scheduled restart job, re
Apr 26 02:35:53 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler.
Apr 26 02:35:53 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Start request repeated to
Apr 26 02:35:53 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Failed with result 'start
Apr 26 02:35:53 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: Failed to start CUPS Scheduler.
lines 1-13/13 (END)

I realised ends of text lines are cut off.

● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Sun 2020-04-26 02:35:53 PDT; 44min ago
     Docs: man:cupsd(8)
  Process: 8389 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -l (code=killed, signal=TERM)
 Main PID: 8389 (code=killed, signal=TERM)

Apr 26 02:35:53 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Apr 26 02:35:53 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Apr 26 02:35:53 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler.
Apr 26 02:35:53 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Apr 26 02:35:53 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Apr 26 02:35:53 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: Failed to start CUPS Scheduler.
~

Synaptics Package Manager is new to me also. I see many printer and cups packages marked as suggested upgrades or something. I

cant find that message again. But many are shaded green in their boxes and many of those are for other priinters. Guess one has to

be selective in marking for reinstallation. This one is one that looks applicable. 'printer-driver-hp-cups'

Then, this is your job.

> Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit)...

About the best I can offer here is to restart the computer and check status again.

Ok, will try that. thanks for your time.

There are some hits in a web search for "cups.service Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit)", e.g. https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/cups-service-stopped-um-18-04/17381

A frequent suggestion is to execute these commands:

sudo cp /usr/share/cups/cupsd.conf.default /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
systemctl restart cups

If you do this, which output do you then get for

systemctl status cups

OUTPUT
● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Sun 2020-04-26 10:43:48 PDT; 9min ago
     Docs: man:cupsd(8)
  Process: 940 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -l (code=killed, signal=TERM)
 Main PID: 940 (code=killed, signal=TERM)

Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler.
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: Failed to start CUPS Scheduler.

Did you run the "sudo cp ..." command and then restarted cups?

Sorry, I didnt copy the full output. Here it is.

jjconstr@Aspire-5733Z:~$ sudo cp /usr/share/cups/cupsd.conf.default /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
[sudo] password for jjconstr:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for jjconstr:
jjconstr@Aspire-5733Z:~$ systemctl status cups
● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; vendor preset: ena
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Sun 2020-04-26 10:43:48 PDT; 9
     Docs: man:cupsd(8)
  Process: 940 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -l (code=killed, signal=TERM)
 Main PID: 940 (code=killed, signal=TERM)

Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Service hold-off time ove
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Scheduled restart job, re
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler.
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Start request repeated to
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Failed with result 'start
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: Failed to start CUPS Scheduler.
lines 1-13/13 (END)...skipping...
● cups.service - CUPS Scheduler
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Sun 2020-04-26 10:43:48 PDT; 9min ago
     Docs: man:cupsd(8)
  Process: 940 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -l (code=killed, signal=TERM)
 Main PID: 940 (code=killed, signal=TERM)

Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: Stopped CUPS Scheduler.
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: cups.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Apr 26 10:43:48 Aspire-5733Z systemd[1]: Failed to start CUPS Scheduler.
~

Hi ,

You can download 3.18.3 or above from https://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/

And let me know if you still face the problem.

Did you restart cups after the copy command?

systemctl restart cups

and only after that check with

systemctl status cups

Manfred,
It worked. I printed a page. great . Thanks. Solved Can you mark it solved for me?
jjconstr

jjconstr

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> Manfred Hampl requested more information:
> Did you restart cups after the copy command?
>
> systemctl restart cups
>
> and only after that check with
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> systemctl status cups
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Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.