Brother MFC errors

Keith Clark keithclark at k-wbookworm.com
Thu Jul 16 21:40:01 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 16:02 -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Brian McKee<brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Keith Clark<keithclark at k-wbookworm.com> wrote:
> >> Yesterday my Brother MFC scanner worked just fine.  Today I get the
> >> following when I turn it on, and this is from the messages log:
> >> hp-info[31755]: warning: No display found.
> >> hp-systray[31756]: warning: No display found.
> >> hp-info[31755]: warning: Unable to connect to dbus. Is hp-systray runn$
> >
> > Keith - that stuff is coming from hp's software - not required for
> > Brother.  Perhaps related.  Suggest you disable the HPLIP service and
> > see if that helps.  Also consider running the 'hp-info' command as
> > root and see what it tells you.
> 
> Also I believe there was an update to DBUS the other day -- have you
> installed the Ubuntu updates in the past week? You may have run into a
> bug in the DBUS rules -- someone may have accidentally identified the
> Brother MFC scanner as an HP printer or something like that.
> 
> Which version of Ubuntu are you running?
> 
> I haven't found a DBUS troubleshooting page, but it might be helpful
> to see in more detail what it's doing when it sees your
> scanner/printer.
> 

Ubuntu 9.04 and error is:

Failed to open device 'brother2:bus2;dev1':Error during device I/O.

Keith






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