HPLIP

Unable to configue my printer HP Laserjet P1007

Asked by Devendra Jalihal on 2021-01-15

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04. My printer HP Laserjet P1007 was working in 16.04. In order to configure the printer, I downloaded hplip-3.20.5.run and ran it. It went alright until it failed on loading the plugin. Normally at this point, it will load the plugin and the printer makes that peculiar sound. That didn't happen.

The output of hp-plugin is as follows:

[01mHP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.20.5)[0m
[01mPlugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1[0m

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP 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.

[01mHP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.20.5)[0m
[01mPlugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1[0m

Checking for network connection...
Downloading plug-in from:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/hplip/base/password.py", line 85, in get_distro_name
os_name = platform.dist()[0]
AttributeError: module 'platform' has no attribute 'dist'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/hplip/ui5/plugindialog.py", line 248, in NextButton_clicked
    status, download_plugin_file, error_str = self.pluginObj.download(self.plugin_path,self.plugin_download_callback)
  File "/usr/share/hplip/installer/pluginhandler.py", line 254, in download
    core = core_install.CoreInstall()
  File "/usr/share/hplip/installer/core_install.py", line 240, in __init__
    self.passwordObj = password.Password(ui_mode)
  File "/usr/share/hplip/base/password.py", line 118, in __init__
    self.__readAuthType() # self.__authType
  File "/usr/share/hplip/base/password.py", line 141, in __readAuthType
    distro_name = get_distro_name().lower().replace(" ","")
  File "/usr/share/hplip/base/password.py", line 88, in get_distro_name
    os_name = distro.linux_distribution()[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/distro.py", line 122, in linux_distribution
    return _distro.linux_distribution(full_distribution_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/distro.py", line 677, in linux_distribution
    self.version(),
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/distro.py", line 737, in version
    self.lsb_release_attr('release'),
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/distro.py", line 899, in lsb_release_attr
    return self._lsb_release_info.get(attribute, '')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/distro.py", line 552, in __get__
    ret = obj.__dict__[self._fname] = self._f(obj)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/distro.py", line 1012, in _lsb_release_info
    stdout = subprocess.check_output(cmd, stderr=devnull)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 411, in check_output
    return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 512, in run
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '('lsb_release', '-a')' returned non-zero exit status 1.
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 153, in apport_excepthook
    with os.fdopen(os.open(pr_filename,
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/crash/_usr_share_hplip_plugin.py.1000.crash'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/hplip/base/password.py", line 85, in get_distro_name
os_name = platform.dist()[0]
AttributeError: module 'platform' has no attribute 'dist'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: