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raavas

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Registered: 2011-10-21

Posts: 86

[SOLVED] CUPS Filter \"brftopagedbrf\" not found.

Today I updated the system and now my printer HP_Color_LaserJet_MFP_M277dw doesn't work. It gives the reason "filter failed" and in the cups error log I find the following

Filter \"brftopagedbrf\" not found.

twice.

How to proceed? The printer worked fine yesterday, and I did as per the pacman's output after update.

warning: /etc/cups/cups-files.conf installed as /etc/cups/cups-files.conf.pacnew
Cups daemon is now running under "cups" user+group.
Please make sure to enable the new user+group change in
/etc/cups/cups-files.conf or merge changes from
/etc/cups/cups-files.conf.default. After a service restart
make sure /etc/cups and all files within are owned by
cups group - run "chgrp -R cups /etc/cups".

Of course, something may have been mishandled in applying the changes to  /etc/cups/cups-files.conf

I have reinstalled cups-filters, hplip and ghostscript, installed foomatic-db and foomatic-db-ppsd, I am at a loss at the moment.

What kind of output do you need to see in order to help?
Where can I find \"brftopagedbrf\" ?

Last edited by raavas (2018-01-31 17:19:36)

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,590

Re: [SOLVED] CUPS Filter \"brftopagedbrf\" not found.

I don't really know the syntax of CUPS filter configuration files, but from that error message, I would conclude that somewhere it treats the quotes as part of the filter name.
So my guess is that somewhere in your configuration files, you have specified a filter name with quotes, whereas it should've been specified without quotes.

Last edited by ayekat (2018-01-31 12:41:04)

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raavas

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Registered: 2011-10-21

Posts: 86

Re: [SOLVED] CUPS Filter \"brftopagedbrf\" not found.

Ok, thanks! I'll have a look.

philo

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Registered: 2015-01-26

Posts: 251

Re: [SOLVED] CUPS Filter \"brftopagedbrf\" not found.

Do you have:

User 209
Group 209

in /etc/cups/cups-files.conf ?

raavas

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Registered: 2011-10-21

Posts: 86

Re: [SOLVED] CUPS Filter \"brftopagedbrf\" not found.

I just checked that with diligence, and saw those values added, but with a # in front. They are now duly removed.

raavas

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Registered: 2011-10-21

Posts: 86

Re: [SOLVED] CUPS Filter \"brftopagedbrf\" not found.

Excellent! After testing, the printer works again. Thank you very much, marking as solved.

I'll have to be more careful in the future with hash characters.

Rickrock

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2014-11-23

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED] CUPS Filter \"brftopagedbrf\" not found.

I also ran into an issue after updating.
Printing stopped working and I wasn't even able to shut the pc down, had to do a hard reboot.

But now the bootprocess stops after

[OK] Started CUPS scheduler.

What should I do now?

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: [SOLVED] CUPS Filter \"brftopagedbrf\" not found.

Same here. Setting the printer up newly in Cups made it work again.

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circleface

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Registered: 2012-05-26

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Re: [SOLVED] CUPS Filter \"brftopagedbrf\" not found.

Rickrock, you may want to start your own thread for your problem, as it doesn't seem to be the same one in this thread.  It would get much more attention if you have your own thread.