HPLIP socket problem

[david walcroft]

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