HPLIP plugin Install Fails Root Password

[Vorlon]

OK, this is a little weird. I'm install HPLIP on a 64-bit unstable system.

My device requires a firmware plugin to take full advantage of the scanner. I'm trying to install the firmware and it rejects my root password.

I emerged HPLIP with USE=qt4, so I've got the gui working. I run hp-plugin as a normal user. It downloads the firmware file, but then aborts because it won't accept the root password. I tried to run the hp-plugin program as root, and it demands a normal user!


Anybody got any suggestions?
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Casey Bralla
Chief Nerd in Residence
The NerdWorld Organisation

[genoobish]

Do you use sudo for your user? I have just tried that, (also have an hplip scanner) and used my sudo password, and it succeeded.
if your user is a sudoer that is strange... if not, than is or it is not th that strange (i dont' know... I haven't tested. ).

more details?

edit: In the meanwhile, I tried to install it on my other machine, the banana-pi that's actually hosting the scanner and I got the same error you apparently got... I'm trying to figure out what's wrong...

edit2: Ok, the hplip versions and userflags are different.
this one is from the working setup

[Vorlon]

Genoobish, my equery -u hplip is the same as your working version. The only difference is that I have KDE installed.


To reiterate, I have to run hp-plugin as a regular user, but it rejects the root password. if I run it as root, it won't run at all. <sigh>


Here is my emerge --info
emerge --info
Portage 2.2.23 (python 2.7.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.22-r1, 4.2.5-gentoo x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-4.2.5-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_940_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem: 8175012 total, 3392892 free
KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16777212 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 12:30:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p42
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1
app-shells/bash: 4.3_p42::gentoo
dev-lang/perl: 5.22.0::gentoo
dev-lang/python: 2.7.10::gentoo, 3.4.3::gentoo, 3.5.0-r1::gentoo
dev-util/cmake: 3.3.2-r1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc: 0.18.3::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.9::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.13.4::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc: 4.9.3::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.2::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc: 2.22-r1::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
location: /usr/portage
sync-type: rsync
sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
priority: -1000

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/ http://mirror.lug.udel.edu/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
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PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
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Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON


I'm going to try it on a more stable KDE system in my basement. Oddly, I've also been having trouble installing in on a Debian Wheezy system
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Casey Bralla
Chief Nerd in Residence
The NerdWorld Organisation

[genoobish]

My working system is also ~64arch
https://bpaste.net/show/ce5f2bb0b99e

Im installing the same version on the pi now to see if that helps... anyways, I don't know what this driver is for. it scans fine at 600 dpi(the max my poor scanner does) using sane over the network. (and I didnt' try to figure it out after installing it.. is it really worth the trouble?).

[genoobish]