HPLIP socket problem (SOLVED)

[david walcroft]

david walcroft wrote:
> I've installed HP's driver for my usb PSC2110 and seems to work ok (at 
> the moment), the problem is trying to access the utilities 'device 
> manager and setup of a network' it cannot use a socket as shown:-
> 
> [root at reddwarf ~]# /usr/share/hplip/toolbox
> toolbox
> toolbox HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.9.2)
> toolbox HP Device Manager ver. 4.0
> toolbox
> toolbox Copyright (c) 2003-5 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
> toolbox This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> toolbox This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
> toolbox under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
> toolbox
> toolbox Listening on localhost port 32775
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/hplip/toolbox", line 446, in ?
>     sys.exit( main( sys.argv[1:] ) )
>   File "/usr/share/hplip/toolbox", line 368, in main
>     toolbox = devmgr4( toolboxCleanup )
>   File "/usr/share/hplip/ui/devmgr4.py", line 244, in __init__
>     self.hpiod_sock.connect( ( prop.hpiod_host, prop.hpiod_port ) )
>   File "<string>", line 1, in connect
> socket.error: (111, 'Connection refused')
> 
> 
> [root at reddwarf hplip]# ./probe -bnet
> 
>  HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.9.2)
>  Device Detection (Probe) Utility ver. 1.1
> 
>  Copyright (c) 2003-5 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
>  This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>  This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
>  under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./probe", line 161, in ?
>     hpssd_sock.connect( ( prop.hpssd_host, prop.hpssd_port ) )
>   File "<string>", line 1, in connect
> socket.error: (111, 'Connection refused')
> 
> 
> This is from syslog
> 
> May  2 13:09:27 reddwarf hp: unable to open /var/run/hpiod.port: No such 
> file or directory
> May  2 13:09:27 reddwarf hp: unable to connect to socket: Connection 
> refused
> 
> Has anyone installed this and seen something similar
> 
>     david

Solved my own problem, I didn't restart hplip and cups after 
installation---Sunday Bloody Sunday

        david