[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#523880: cups: printer doesn't print anything since upgrade from 1.3.9.15 (or .14)

[Volker Klasen]

Package: cups
Version: 1.3.9-17
Severity: normal

Hello,

since updating last weekend (Su, April 4th) my printer (Brother HL-2040, laser)
won't print anything anymore. With the old version (should have been 1.3.9.15
or 1.3.9.14) there were no problems at all; printing worked just fine for all
Linux and Windows hosts.

Now (1.3.9.17 and 1.3.9.16) when trying to print (from network or print server)
nothing happens except for the printer warming up, but nothing more. There are
no errors in the logs (in /var/log/cups), so I don't have any clue where the
problem is.

Of course, I tried rebooting, reconnecting the printer, deleting and adding the
printer, but nothing changed.

I'm using the "official" Brother driver (lpr + cupswrapper).

Any idea, what's happening (or instructions on how to debug)?

Thanks in advance

Volker

P.S. The printer works fine using Windows

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser              3.110               add and remove users and groups
ii  bc                   1.06.94-3           The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii  cups-common          1.3.9-17            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0 1.5.26              Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript          8.64~dfsg-1         The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-compat-libd 0.6.24-3            Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6                2.9-6               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2             1.3.9-17            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2        1.3.9-17            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.2.12-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1              1:4.3.3-7           GCC support library
ii  libgnutls26          2.6.4-2             the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2     1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libijs-0.35          0.35-6              IJS raster image transport protoco
ii  libkrb5-3            1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2        2.4.15-1            OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g             1.0.1-9             Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1            1.1.23+nmu1         library for handling paper charact
ii  libpoppler4          0.10.5-1            PDF rendering library
ii  libslp1              1.2.1-7.5           OpenSLP libraries
ii  libstdc++6           4.3.3-7             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base             3.2-22              Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules         5.10.0-19           Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [xpdf- 0.10.5-1            PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps               1:3.2.7-11          /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert             1.0.23              simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  ttf-freefont         20090104-2          Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13   compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn  avahi-utils                   <none>     (no description available)
ii  cups-client                   1.3.9-17   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  foomatic-filters              <none>     (no description available)
pn  smbclient                     <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages cups suggests:
pn  cups-bsd                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  cups-driver-gutenprint        <none>     (no description available)
pn  cups-pdf                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  foomatic-db                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  foomatic-db-engine            <none>     (no description available)
pn  hplip                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japanese | <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd