hp-toolbox crashing in F10beta

Gerry Tool gerrytool at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 20:06:49 UTC 2008


On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 22:56 -0500, Gerry Tool wrote:
>> Trying to run hp-toolbox in F10 beta crashes with
>> [gerry at f10beta ~]$ hp-toolbox
>>
>> HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 2.8.7)
>> HP Device Manager ver. 14.0
>>
>> Copyright (c) 2001-8 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.
>>
>> error: Unable to lock /home/gerry/.hplip/hp-toolbox.lock. Is
>> hp-toolbox already running?
>> [gerry at f10beta ~]$ ps aux | grep hp-toolbox
>> gerry     4020  0.0  0.0   4212   704 pts/0    S+   22:44   0:00 grep hp-toolbox
>>
>> It is evident that no other instance is running.
>
> Does /home/gerry/.hplip/hp-toolbox.lock exist? If so, remove it and try
> again.
>
> poc

I found that there was indeed an icon in my panel that I hadn't
noticed and one on the desktop, evidently from my first try to run
hp-toolbox.  I removed those and now all works fine.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Gerry




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