Printer not working after system update

archelvetic · 2018-02-07 15:06:58

Dear fellows

After updating (to 4.15) via

pacman -Syyu

I'm not able to print anymore.

Viewing CUPS I see Brother MFC 5720 "Waiting for printer to become available"

Any ideas where I should start?

P.S. Maybe off-topic: Restoring to the state before the update (4.14) solves the problem.

Trilby · 2018-02-07 15:17:26

Did you follow the instructions for reconfiguring CUPS that pacman printed out on the screen when you updated? Alternatively, have you checked any of the recent CUPS related threads?

jasonwryan · 2018-02-07 15:21:28

Is your printer driver from the AUR?

archelvetic · 2018-02-07 17:47:40

@Trilby: Thank you for pointing that out, indeed I missed a warning about CUPS.

Reading this thread [1] I tried without success:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart org.cups.cupsd.service 
chgrp -R cups /etc/cups
reboot

@jasonwryan: Thank you. No, not from the AUR but by the instructions from Brother [2], I tried repeating the installation though got the message: Driver is alread installed

sudo rpm -ihv --nodeps mfcj5720dwcupswrapper-3.0.1-1.i386.rpm

[1]https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … e6717b52a1
[2]http://support.brother.com/g/b/download … &type3=560

Scimmia · 2018-02-07 17:49:50

Why the hell do you have "rpm" installed on Arch? Using it like that is a HORRIBLE idea.

archelvetic · 2018-02-08 07:49:49

@Scimmia I suppose because I'm a beginner.

However I thought about your comment and reinstalled the printer using the AUR package (this time via packer).

Alas the problem remains: "Waiting for printer to become available"

Does anyone have another approach?

seth · 2018-02-08 09:38:58

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=234203

Rickrock · 2018-02-08 09:56:48

Scimmia wrote:

Why the hell do you have "rpm" installed on Arch? Using it like that is a HORRIBLE idea.

What else should he do?
Brother only delivers .rpm and .deb packages.

I suppose the AUR package is compiled from these packages as well...

 _brsource="brother_${_brotherlnd}_GPL_source_${pkgver//_/-}"
#_dlf='http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf'
source=(
  "[url]http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf101185/${_brotherlnd}cupswrapper-${pkgver//_/-}.i386.rpm[/url]"
  "[url]http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf101184/${_brotherlnd}lpr-${pkgver//_/-}.i386.rpm[/url]"
  "[url]http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf101198/${_brsource}.tar.gz[/url]"
  'lpr-license.txt'

Last edited by Rickrock (2018-02-08 10:01:04)

seth · 2018-02-08 10:03:53

pacman -S rpmextract

Trilby · 2018-02-08 11:54:32

Rickrock wrote:

What else should he do?
Brother only delivers .rpm and .deb packages.

What the upstream source delivers is never (directly) relevant for the end-user on linux systems (unless that end user wants to break their linux system).

On Windows, sure. That is the de facto standard method of installing software on Windows: download a random binary from a website, and give it administrator access to run. Linux is not Windows. Every (nearly?) linux distribution has a package manager.

Arch linux has one of the best (or the best if you ask me) package managers: use it. That's what he should do.

Also listen to it. As pacman printed out useful information which I referred to in the first response of this thread and Seth linked to in post #7.

Last edited by Trilby (2018-02-08 11:56:44)

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