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

[Elmar Stellnberger]

> Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
>
> >> 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/.
>
> I suspect from looking into your files that the cause is the fact that the
> needed fonts could not be embedded. The error_log shows:
>
> [Job 39] Unable to open font file "/usr/share/cups/fonts/Monospace" - No such file or directory
>
> etc. for all the fonts needed for the testpage. As these fonts, I suppose, are not
> installed in the printer's ROM, the missing fonts clearly lead to a PostScript error.
> This seems to be backed by the message
>
> [Job 39] Error: error occurred at print phase !!
>
> wich comes, as I can see, from the Brother filter.
>
> So look for the Monospace font family and install it properly.
>
> Helge
>

  The Monospace fonts are installed, the given error messages have gone, but however the 'No pages found' error still persists perhaps now occurring a little bit later. Again I have posted all the new log files at http://elstel.org/postedfiles/brother_mfc_9840cdw_cups/ but however could not find a possible cause of this error. The given jobs will have started at 10:25:31 and finished at 10:25:33 so that the only log file containing datas about the failed test-page-printout should be error_log.

Good Thanks for Your Support,
Elmar

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