no pages found: whimsical errors with a binary driver working well on other cups systems
Elmar Stellnberger
estellnb at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 13:48:51 PDT 2011
> 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
>
I have now uploaded the collected debug & logfiles at http://elstel.binhoster.com/postedfiles/brother_mfc-9840cdw_cups/.
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