I have the same problem on three different installs on 2 different laptops. Only one install (upgraded from 11.04 does not have the problem. Sudo hp-toolbox returns:
*********** HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.11.7) HP Device Manager ver. 15.0 Copyright (c) 2001-9 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: dBus initialization error. Exiting. edwin@edwin-Satellite-L300:~$ ********** hp-toolbox (without sudo) logs me off. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813230 Title: Starting HP Toolbox brings system to a grinding halt To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/813230/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs