Can't create printer; cupsd stops when I try

[Leon Goldman]

I have given up trying to get cups 1.6.1 to work. I completely removed it and all evidence of CUPS and then reinstalled my distros packages but I cannot get a printer created.

I have a Brother printer and have downloaded and installed their drivers and followed their instructions to install the drivers.  Yet...

when I try to create a printer under CuPS 1.4.8,  just when I go to create it, the connection to the server is severed and cupsd stops and nothing happens.

Yet in the access log is says:
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:47:05 -0400] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 60 - -
localhost - - [31/Oct/2012:20:47:05 -0400] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 401 91 CUPS-Get-Devices successful-ok
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:47:05 -0400] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 1488 CUPS-Get-Devices -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:47:05 -0400] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 2987 - -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:47:16 -0400] "POST /admin HTTP/1.1" 200 76 - -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:47:16 -0400] "POST /admin HTTP/1.1" 200 2650 - -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:47:43 -0400] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 60 - -
localhost - - [31/Oct/2012:20:47:43 -0400] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 401 91 CUPS-Get-Devices successful-ok
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:47:43 -0400] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 1488 CUPS-Get-Devices -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:47:43 -0400] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 2987 - -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:47:49 -0400] "POST /admin HTTP/1.1" 200 76 - -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:47:49 -0400] "POST /admin HTTP/1.1" 200 2650 - -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:48:11 -0400] "POST /admin HTTP/1.1" 200 127 - -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:48:11 -0400] "POST /admin HTTP/1.1" 200 3205 - -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:48:24 -0400] "POST /admin HTTP/1.1" 200 239 - -
localhost - - [31/Oct/2012:20:48:24 -0400] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 1773 CUPS-Get-PPDs -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:48:24 -0400] "POST /admin HTTP/1.1" 200 5913 - -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:48:40 -0400] "POST /admin HTTP/1.1" 200 1969 - -
localhost - - [31/Oct/2012:20:48:40 -0400] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 151566 CUPS-Get-PPDs -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:48:40 -0400] "POST /admin HTTP/1.1" 200 57521 - -
localhost - root [31/Oct/2012:20:49:02 -0400] "POST /admin HTTP/1.1" 200 2034 - -
localhost - - [31/Oct/2012:20:49:02 -0400] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 401 377 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer successful-ok

But the printer was NOT created. yet the access log looks OK.

The error log does not show anything occuring at the time the connection is lost and cupsd shuts down.
The last 4 lines are:
d [31/Oct/2012:20:43:58 -0400] cupsdAddSelect(fd=11, read_cb=0x7f18e20bd4f0, write_cb=(nil), data=0x7f18e3ba62f0)
D [31/Oct/2012:20:43:58 -0400] cupsdSetBusyState: Not busy
d [31/Oct/2012:20:43:58 -0400] cupsdReadClient(con=0x7f18e3ba62f0(11)) con->http.error=0 con->http.used=0, con->http.state=0 con->data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODE_LENGTH, con->data_remaining=0, con->file=-1
d [31/Oct/2012:20:43:58 -0400] cupsdReadClient(con=0x7f18e3ba62f0(11)) con->http.error=0 con->http.used=0, con->http.state=0 con->data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODE_LENGTH, con->data_remaining=0, con->file=-1
d [31/Oct/2012:20:43:58 -0400] cupsdReadClient(con=0x7f18e3ba62f0(11)) con->http.error=0 con->http.used=0, con->http.state=0 con->data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODE_LENGTH, con->data_remaining=0, con->file=-1

systemctl status shows:
cups.service - CUPS printing server daemon
	  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.service)
	  Active: failed since Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:12:13 -0400; 42min ago
	 Process: 11846 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
	 Process: 11843 ExecStartPre=/sbin/portrelease cups (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
	Main PID: 11847 (code=exited, status=127)

I don't know where else to look for help. Google search has not yielded anything at this point.