HP Device Manager - no systray-icon after update

[Brian McKee]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Michael Kadzioch
> <michael_kadzioch at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> i use hp-printers and i use the HP Device Manager (hplib) on ubuntu.
>> There was an systray-icon with useful information about the state of my
>> printers. But after the last update (yesterday) the systray-icon is lost.
> There was an update to the hplip stuff recently.  Sounds like that's related.
>
> Did you ever install an updated hplip from HP directly or were you
> just using the regular built into Ubuntu version?
> And, which version of Ubuntu are you running?


Hey - are you running 7.10?  If so - the update was borked after all....

>     USN-674-1 provided packages to fix vulnerabilities in HPLIP. Due to an
>     internal archive problem, the updates for Ubuntu 7.10 would not install
>     properly. This update provides fixed packages for Ubuntu 7.10.
>     We apologize for the inconvenience.

Do another update and I think your issue will go away.

Brian