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

[Elmar Stellnberger]

> 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
>
>

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