HP Device Manager - no systray-icon after update

Michael Kadzioch michael_kadzioch at gmx.de
Tue Nov 25 08:54:25 UTC 2008



Brian McKee schrieb:
> 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
> 


I have Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. My printers works but only the systray-icon with 
useful information about the state of my printers get lost.


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