Brother DCP 7025 USB stopped working in Jaunty x64

[Ludovic Claude]

Binary package hint: cupsys

After a recent upgrade to cups 1.3.9-17ubuntu2, printing stopped working with my Brother DCP 7025 on USB.
It was working fine until a few days ago, that is well after I upgraded from Intrepid to Jaunty (AMD64). After I installed some upgrades, I noticed that printing does not work anymore, and when I tried to re-install my printer driver, Cups did not recognize the printer.

I checked the logs, and I have the following error messages:

cat /var/log/cups/error_log

E [03/May/2009:14:16:49 +0100] Resume-Printer: Unauthorized
E [03/May/2009:14:28:00 +0100] Pause-Printer: Unauthorized
E [03/May/2009:14:28:13 +0100] Resume-Printer: Unauthorized
E [03/May/2009:14:51:20 +0100] CUPS-Delete-Printer: Unauthorized
E [03/May/2009:14:58:04 +0100] cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate not found!

Other people seem to have the same problem on the forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1132882

I have checked other bug reports on Launchpad, including #348316 which fixed a similar problem with a new release of hal-cups (0.6.19+git20090217-0ubuntu6). I have 0.6.19+git20090217-0ubuntu7 installed on my system, so it looks like this fix had some side-effects!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Lpstat:
 périphérique pour Brother-DCP-7025 : usb://Brother/DCP-7025
 périphérique pour BrotherDCP7025 : parallel:/dev/lp0
 périphérique pour PDF : cups-pdf:/
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c01b Logitech, Inc. MX310 Optical Mouse
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. ALiveNF4G-DVI
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: cupsys 1.3.9-17ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
Papersize: a4
PpdFiles:
 BrotherDCP7025: Brother DCP7025 for CUPS
 PDF: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
 Brother-DCP-7025: Brother DCP-7025 BR-Script3
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=86ba6efa-e1e9-4e8b-a90e-5e265bf21229 ro quiet splash all_generic_ide vga=794
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.42-generic
SourcePackage: cups

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Did you try the brother-cups-wrapper-laser package from multiverse, according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BrotherDriverPackaging it should support the Brother DCP 7025 printer.

[Ludovic Claude (ludovicc)]

Yes, I have brother-cups-wrapper-laser version 2.0.1-2-0ubuntu5 now. With this new version the printer works again, so I'm almost happy: the first printed page always fails to print and gives an error message, but that's another bug report.