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Bug 1219284 - hp-plugin shows a blank grey window
Summary: hp-plugin shows a blank grey window
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: hplip
Version: 22
Hardware: All
OS: All
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Zdenek Dohnal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common...
Depends On: qt4-no-root
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-05-06 23:23 UTC by Adam Williamson
Modified: 2016-07-19 19:34 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-07-19 19:34:13 UTC
Type: Bug
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Launchpad 1449964 0 None None None Never
Red Hat Bugzilla 1196237 0 unspecified CLOSED hp-plugin does not work in Fedora 22 2022-05-16 11:32:56 UTC

Internal Links: 1196237

Description Adam Williamson 2015-05-06 23:23:05 UTC 
hp-plugin will only run as root - if you run it as regular user it prints an error:

error: You must be root to run this utility.

but on F22, where X doesn't run as root, running it as root produces a blank grey window. The reasons for this are discussed in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185893 , and there's a good summary at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196237#c18 - basically this needs fixing on the app side somehow or other, it's the app that's Doin' It Rong.

I will probably also file this upstream. We should probably document this as CommonBugs for F22 if it doesn't get fixed - the workaround is simple, run 'hp-plugin -i' to get the text mode.
Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2015-05-06 23:31:04 UTC 
Upstream report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1449964
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2015-05-07 08:33:23 UTC 
Thanks Adam!
Comment 3 Hedayat Vatankhah 2015-07-02 15:04:52 UTC 
I added the workaround to run hp-plugin graphically (QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1) to common bugs page.
Comment 4 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-06-24 10:36:50 UTC 
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 19:34:13 UTC 
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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