no pages found: whimsical errors with a binary driver working well on other cups systems

[Helge Blischke]

Elmar Stellnberger wrote:

>   Printing test pages always breaks with the error 'no pages found'. The
>   same driver from solutions.brother.com/linux for the mfc-9840cdw
>   (1.0.3-1.i386) works well on another machine using the same Linux
>   version (2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop) and cups release (cups-1.4.6-70.1,
>   openSUSE 11.3) though on an i686 platform rather than on an x86_64 as
>   desired. I also remember the brother drivers having worked for x86_64 on
>   a previous installation given that the i586 support libraries are
>   correctly installed which I have verified with ldd/rpm. However also the
>   cups installation on the x86_64 machine seems to be correct since the
>   generic postcript printer driver will make my mfc-9840cdw print well
>   though in unsatisfyingly low quality using only black and white instead
>   of color. PDF-file printing does also work well.
> 
>   Can anyone help? I have raised the debug level and analysed the logs but
>   didn`t find any error message. That seems to be the very cryptical thing
>   about the 'no pages found' fallacy with cups.
> 
> Many Thanks and Appreciation for Your Response,
> Elmar Stellnberger

Please post (an URL to) a sample file and the portion of the error_log 
containing the messages related to the sample job for further examination.

Helge