/usr/share/cups/drv/cupsfilters.drv broken

[PeterPall]

Did buy a Brother MFC8510 printer that worked out-of-the box (after changing the protocol the printer is accessed with at http://localhost:681, that is, since dnssd seems not to fully work for me, see the warning) but stopped working about 2 months ago. At the same time /var/log/cups/error_log started to fill with the following warning:

E [13/Jul/2013:14:28:13 +0200] [cups-deviced] PID 2778 (dnssd) stopped with status 1!
E [13/Jul/2013:14:28:40 +0200] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file "/usr/share/cups/drv/cupsfilters.drv"!

moving the file away stopped the warnings and returned my printer to a working order again.

Will attach the file to this bug report: Didn't find it in apt-cache so I assume it might be a remains from an old version of an package.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: cups 1.6.2-10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-26.38-generic 3.8.13.2
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 13 14:41:12 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Lpstat:
 device for BRFAX: usb:/dev/usb/lp0
 device for default: ///dev/null
 device for MFC8510DN: socket://192.168.181.17:9100
 device for PDF: cups-pdf:/
MachineType: Acer Aspire S3
MarkForUpload: True
Papersize: a4
PpdFiles:
 MFC8510DN: Brother MFC-8510DN for CUPS
 BRFAX: Brother BRMFCFAX for CUPS
 PDF: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-2-generic root=UUID=c0e15acd-7145-4f36-839e-b2b078ada068 ro quiet splash pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: cups
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 02/20/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: INSYDE
dmi.bios.version: 1.18
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Aspire S3
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: 1.18
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnINSYDE:bvr1.18:bd02/20/2012:svnAcer:pnAspireS3:pvr1.18:rvnAcer:rnAspireS3:rvr1.18:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: Aspire S3
dmi.product.version: 1.18
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

cups-filters 1.0.35 has a fix for the cupsfilters.drv problem. Strange for me is that this problem prevents your printer from printing.

Please follow the instructions of the sections "Capturing print job data" and "CUPS error_log" on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems for further investigation.

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[bingo1912 (travis-wenks)]

I am using Linux Mint 15 x64 and moving the file fixes the error but not the inability to print

[bingo1912 (travis-wenks)]

I was able to fix it on my system
Linux gigabox 3.8.0-19-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 17 18:16:28 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

First I remove the file
"/usr/share/cups/drv/cupsfilters.drv"

then in synaptic I reinstalled all files taged with cups
Commit Log for Thu Oct 3 12:50:02 2013

Reinstalled the following packages:
bluez-cups (4.101-0ubuntu8b1)
cups (1.6.2-1ubuntu5)
cups-browsed (1.0.34-0ubuntu1.1)
cups-bsd (1.6.2-1ubuntu5)
cups-client (1.6.2-1ubuntu5)
cups-common (1.6.2-1ubuntu5)
cups-daemon (1.6.2-1ubuntu5)
cups-filters (1.0.34-0ubuntu1.1)
cups-pk-helper (0.2.4-0ubuntu5)
cups-ppdc (1.6.2-1ubuntu5)
foomatic-db-compressed-ppds (20130308-0ubuntu2)
foomatic-filters (4.0.17-1ubuntu1)
ghostscript-cups (9.07~dfsg2-0ubuntu3.1)
hplip (3.13.3-1ubuntu0.1)
libcups2 (1.6.2-1ubuntu5)
libcups2:i386 (1.6.2-1ubuntu5)
libcupscgi1 (1.6.2-1ubuntu5)
libcupsfilters1 (1.0.34-0ubuntu1.1)
libcupsfilters1:i386 (1.0.34-0ubuntu1.1)
libcupsimage2 (1.6.2-1ubuntu5)
libcupsimage2:i386 (1.6.2-1ubuntu5)
libcupsmime1 (1.6.2-1ubuntu5)
libcupsppdc1 (1.6.2-1ubuntu5)
libfontembed1 (1.0.34-0ubuntu1.1)
libgutenprint2 (5.2.9-1ubuntu1)
printer-driver-gutenprint (5.2.9-1ubuntu1)
printer-driver-hpcups (3.13.3-1ubuntu0.1)
printer-driver-min12xxw (0.0.9-6ubuntu2)
python-cups (1.9.62-0ubuntu3)
python-cupshelpers (1.3.12+20130308-0ubuntu4)
system-config-printer-common (1.3.12+20130308-0ubuntu4)
system-config-printer-gnome (1.3.12+20130308-0ubuntu4)
system-config-printer-udev (1.3.12+20130308-0ubuntu4)

then changed the driver to
Driver: Brother HL-2140 Foomatic/hl1250 (grayscale, 2-sided printing)

works for me now.

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Cliff Carson (ccarson1)]

Cannot add the local shared printer to another system. The remote system doesn't "see" the network printer. Error log on the print server shows that cups process dnssd had a problem.

E [13/Oct/2013:10:04:59 -0400] [cups-deviced] PID 5363 (dnssd) stopped with status 1!
E [13/Oct/2013:10:05:39 -0400] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file "/usr/share/cups/drv/cupsfilters.drv"!

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Cliff, which version of Ubuntu and which version of cups-filters are you using?

[bingo1912 (travis-wenks)]

so I tried all the drivers an one worked then I updated kernels and it died again.
$ uname -a
Linux gigabox 3.8.0-34-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 18:00:10 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I did find the error in the cups error log again
E [01/Jan/2014:10:17:10 -0800] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file "/usr/share/cups/drv/cupsfilters.drv"!
W [01/Jan/2014:10:17:41 -0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'Brother_HL-2140-Gray..' already exists
W [01/Jan/2014:10:20:02 -0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'Brother_HL-2140-Gray..' already exists
W [01/Jan/2014:10:22:02 -0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'Brother_HL-2140_series-Gray..' already exists
W [01/Jan/2014:10:22:05 -0800] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'Brother_HL-2140_series-Gray..' already exists
so i removed the file
/usr/share/cups/drv/cupsfilters.drv

the error went away but the printer still wont print. If there is any further info I can provide please message or post here I'll check regularly.