[plug] Canon MP630 Multifunction report:

Nigel Duff nigel at dubh.id.au
Thu Jul 9 19:10:24 WST 2009


Hi Dave,

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 06:33:53PM +0800, David Dartnall wrote:
>
> Printer State: Idle - Unable to open device
 
> "hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4a9_172e_12CEC8_if1_printer_noserial": 
>
> Permission denied
>
> There is no such location on my computer!
>
> If this is only a permissions problem, how is it resolved?

I had a similar problem with an Epson multifunction back with
Ubuntu Gutsy. I found doing a 
 
chmod 700 /usr/lib/cups/backend/hal  

fixed the problem. 

However that file is set at 755 on my installation of Jaunty and
I don't see why making it executable by root only would work.

Nigel





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