Comment 2 for bug 178822

A bit more information that may help:
lpr logfile
lpr: Error - no default destination available.
$
$ tail -f /var/log/messages
Dec 29 20:36:57 zack -- MARK --
Dec 29 20:56:57 zack -- MARK --
Dec 29 21:01:33 zack kernel: [260699.546784] ioctl32(parallel:11628): Unknown cmd fd(4) cmd(44005001){t:'P';sz:1024} arg(ffb08a74) on /dev/lp0

 tail -20 /var/log/cups/error_log
D [29/Dec/2007:23:25:20 -0500] CUPS-Get-Default client-error-not-found: No default printer
D [29/Dec/2007:23:25:20 -0500] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=406 (client-error-not-found)
D [29/Dec/2007:23:25:20 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 9
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain)
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] CUPS-Get-Printers client-error-not-found: No destinations added.
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=406 (client-error-not-found)
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] CUPS-Get-Classes
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] CUPS-Get-Classes client-error-not-found: No destinations added.
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=406 (client-error-not-found)
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] CUPS-Get-Default
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] CUPS-Get-Default client-error-not-found: No default printer
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=406 (client-error-not-found)
D [29/Dec/2007:23:26:36 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 9

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I have googled around and read through https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems, (app-armour doesn't seem to apply to the sparc64 server version) but I am really stuck with this one and am looking for something reasonable to try. What is frustrating is that this did actually work with debian.