Comment 28 for bug 994924

OK, I am having similar troubles with hplip both 3.12.4 and 3.12.6.

1) the /var.lib/hp dir is not installed by the ebuild. It seems that recent versions no longer install the hplip.state file, so it is an empty directory and does not get installed. running mkdir /var/lib/hp fixed that for me.

This is covered in upstream bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1018303

Also it is mentioned with a fixed ebuild in our bug 352439 although his fix was cat >> "${ED}/var/lib/hp/hplip.state" << _EOF_

Where I believe adding a "keepdir /var/lib/hp" is probably the correct way. Also that bug is assigned to Diego

2) I have added users to the lp group which has fixed another issue.

3) I am having the same plugin installed failed issues in that it downloads and install, then install fails. Running hp-setup in -g (debug mode) it produses more output which indicates:

hp-setup[23433]: debug:
Done.
 Plug-in installation successful.

hp-setup[23433]: debug:
Done.

hp-setup[23433]: debug: Plugin is installed
hp-setup[23433]: debug: scan Plug-in file /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_marvell.so status: 1
hp-setup[23433]: debug: scan Plug-in file /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_soapht.so status: 1
hp-setup[23433]: debug: scan Plug-in file /usr/share/hplip/scan/plugins/bb_soap.so status: 1
hp-setup[23433]: debug: fax Plug-in file /usr/share/hplip/fax/plugins/fax_marvell.so status: 1
hp-setup[23433]: debug: print Plug-in file /usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/lj.so status: 1
hp-setup[23433]: debug: Either print file is not present or symbolic link is missing: /usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/hbpl1.so
hp-setup[23433]: debug: print Plug-in file /usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/hbpl1.so status: -1
hp-setup[23433]: debug: Plug-in files might be corrupted. Re-install plug-in
error: The printer you are trying to setup requires a binary driver plug-in and it failed to install. Please check your internet connection and try again. Visit http://hplipopensource.com for more infomation.

Done.
big_daddy brian #

That file or symlink is not there.

I'll try recompiling without the policykit use flag.