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Brother HL2040 printer/lpr stopped working after update

Hi!

I have a Brother HL2040 printer that worked perfectly well on my Debian
testing with the .deb driver package Brother provides. I don't have CUPS
installed, I use lpr. My printer stopped working without me changing any
system configuration other than my usual package updating via aptitude.

I am afraid this is gonna be a "it's not working" mail with little added
information, but I am hoping someone can point me in the right
direction and even tell me if I can report this as a bug (wishlist
maybe). Or maybe someone is experiencing the same problem.

What I know.

When I try to print something, the queue system works fine, printing
jobs get queued, if the printer is off they remain in the queue, when
the printer is turned on they are sent to the printer.

The communication PC-> printer should be working. When a job is sent to
the printer the printer "wakes up", makes all the "hot air" noise it
usually does, plus the led light blink as it always did while it is
receiving data. The length of the blinking still varies with the amount
of data sent.

Nothing at all is printed, it doesn't even spit out white pages, it just
does nothing.

The printer itself works, the test page gets written OK.

I don't print every day so I can pinpoint the problem in a time-range
from last successful printing to problem discovery. In that time range I
did the updating jobs you can see in the relevant parts of my aptitude
logs that I quoted at the end of this message. I strongly suspect the
ghostscript and libgs8 packages in the first part of the log to be what
caused it, tho I am not sure.

I tried updating my Brother drivers downloading and installing the
latest version (I had quite an old one but it worked well so I never
bothered to get a newer one). It didn't change a thing.

Please keep in mind that English is not my first language and if I
forgot any relevant information, I'd be happy to provide it.

Thanks,
beatrice.

=======from my aptitude logs. 

NOTE: my logs are localized in Italian. AGGIORNATO means UPDATED (or
possibly UPGRADED, I'm not sure what the original used term is),
INSTALLATO is INSTALLED, RIMOSSO is REMOVED.

Aptitude 0.4.11.11: registro
gio, mar 19 2009 15:41:07 +0100

===============================================================================
[AGGIORNATO] ghostscript 8.63.dfsg.1-2 -> 8.64~dfsg-1
[AGGIORNATO] ghostscript-x 8.63.dfsg.1-2 -> 8.64~dfsg-1
[AGGIORNATO] gs-common 8.63.dfsg.1-2 -> 8.64~dfsg-1
[AGGIORNATO] libgs8 8.63.dfsg.1-2 -> 8.64~dfsg-1
[AGGIORNATO] libmpfr1ldbl 2.4.0-5 -> 2.4.1-1
[AGGIORNATO] liborbit2 1:2.14.16-0.1 -> 1:2.14.17-0.1
[AGGIORNATO] lxdvdrip 1.74-0.0 -> 1.74-0.1
===============================================================================

Aptitude 0.4.11.11: registro
mar, mar 24 2009 15:45:45 +0100

===============================================================================
[INSTALLATO, DIPENDENZA] libglade2-0
[INSTALLATO, DIPENDENZA] libicu40
[RIMOSSO, DIPENDENZA] libxcb-xlib0
[AGGIORNATO] cdlabelgen 4.1.0-1 -> 4.1.0-2
[AGGIORNATO] dictionaries-common 1.0.0 -> 1.2.0
[AGGIORNATO] gcompris 8.4.4-1.1 -> 8.4.8-1
[AGGIORNATO] gcompris-data 8.4.4-1.1 -> 8.4.8-1
[AGGIORNATO] gcompris-sound-en 8.4.4-1.1 -> 8.4.8-1
[AGGIORNATO] gcompris-sound-it 8.4.4-1.1 -> 8.4.8-1
[AGGIORNATO] grep 2.5.4-2 -> 2.5.4-3
[AGGIORNATO] groff-base 1.18.1.1-21 -> 1.18.1.1-22
[AGGIORNATO] hal-info 20090202-1 -> 20090309-1
[AGGIORNATO] hellanzb 0.13-3 -> 0.13-4
[AGGIORNATO] iceweasel 3.0.6-1 -> 3.0.7-1
[AGGIORNATO] imagemagick 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-3 -> 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1
[AGGIORNATO] info 4.11.dfsg.1-4 -> 4.13a.dfsg.1-1
[AGGIORNATO] libboost-date-time1.34.1 1.34.1-15 -> 1.34.1-15+b1
[AGGIORNATO] libboost-filesystem1.34.1 1.34.1-15 -> 1.34.1-15+b1
[AGGIORNATO] libboost-signals1.34.1 1.34.1-15 -> 1.34.1-15+b1
[AGGIORNATO] libboost-thread1.34.1 1.34.1-15 -> 1.34.1-15+b1
[AGGIORNATO] libdes425-3 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-9 -> 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-11
[AGGIORNATO] libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.27-4 -> 2:1.02.30-3
[AGGIORNATO] libgssapi-krb5-2 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-9 -> 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-11
[AGGIORNATO] libgtk2.0-0 2.12.12-1 -> 2.14.7-4+b1
[AGGIORNATO] libgtk2.0-bin 2.12.12-1 -> 2.14.7-4
[AGGIORNATO] libgtk2.0-common 2.12.12-1 -> 2.14.7-4
[AGGIORNATO] libk5crypto3 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-9 -> 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-11
[AGGIORNATO] libkrb5-3 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-9 -> 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-11
[AGGIORNATO] libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-9 -> 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-11
[AGGIORNATO] libkrb5support0 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-9 -> 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-11
[AGGIORNATO] libmagick++10 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-3 -> 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1
[AGGIORNATO] libmagick10 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-3 -> 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1
[AGGIORNATO] libmozjs1d 1.9.0.6-1 -> 1.9.0.7-1
[AGGIORNATO] libnotify-bin 0.4.4-3 -> 0.4.5-1
[AGGIORNATO] libnotify1 0.4.4-3 -> 0.4.5-1
[AGGIORNATO] librsvg2-2 2.22.2-4 -> 2.22.3-2
[AGGIORNATO] librsvg2-common 2.22.2-4 -> 2.22.3-2
[AGGIORNATO] libsamplerate0 0.1.4-1 -> 0.1.7-2
[AGGIORNATO] libwebkit-1.0-1 1.0.1-4 -> 1.0.1-4+b1
[AGGIORNATO] libwnck-common 2.22.3-1 -> 2.24.2-2
[AGGIORNATO] libwnck22 2.22.3-1 -> 2.24.2-2
[AGGIORNATO] libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 -> 2:1.2-1
[AGGIORNATO] libx11-data 2:1.1.5-2 -> 2:1.2-1
[AGGIORNATO] libxcb-render0 1.1-1.1 -> 1.2-1
[AGGIORNATO] libxcb-shape0 1.1-1.1 -> 1.2-1
[AGGIORNATO] libxcb-shm0 1.1-1.1 -> 1.2-1
[AGGIORNATO] libxcb-xv0 1.1-1.1 -> 1.2-1
[AGGIORNATO] libxcb1 1.1-1.1 -> 1.2-1
[AGGIORNATO] libxrandr2 2:1.2.3-1 -> 2:1.3.0-2
[AGGIORNATO] myspell-en-us 1:3.0.1-5 -> 1:3.0.1-6
[AGGIORNATO] notification-daemon 0.3.7-1+b1 -> 0.4.0-1
[AGGIORNATO] psi 0.12-2 -> 0.12.1-1
[AGGIORNATO] texinfo 4.11.dfsg.1-4 -> 4.13a.dfsg.1-1
[AGGIORNATO] whois 4.7.31 -> 4.7.32
[AGGIORNATO] wmtime 1.0b2-9 -> 1.0b2-10
[AGGIORNATO] xgraph 12.1-10 -> 12.1-11
[AGGIORNATO] xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.6-1 -> 1.9.0.7-1
===============================================================================

Aptitude 0.4.11.11: registro
sab, mar 28 2009 14:21:38 +0100

===============================================================================
[AGGIORNATO] alsa-base 1.0.17.dfsg-4 -> 1.0.19.dfsg-2
[AGGIORNATO] base-passwd 3.5.20 -> 3.5.21
[AGGIORNATO] debhelper 7.0.17 -> 7.2.6
[AGGIORNATO] grub-common 1.96+20080724-16 -> 1.96+20090317-1
[AGGIORNATO] gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.22-3 -> 0.10.22-4
[AGGIORNATO] gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.22-3 -> 0.10.22-4
[AGGIORNATO] gvfs 1.0.3-2 -> 1.0.3-3
[AGGIORNATO] libasound2 1.0.16-2 -> 1.0.19-1
[AGGIORNATO] libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 0.10.22-3 -> 0.10.22-4
[AGGIORNATO] libgvfscommon0 1.0.3-2 -> 1.0.3-3
[AGGIORNATO] libmpcdec3 1.2.2-1 -> 1:1.2.2-2.1
[AGGIORNATO] libpcre3 7.8-2 -> 7.8-2+b1
[AGGIORNATO] libpulse0 0.9.10-3 -> 0.9.14-2
[AGGIORNATO] libsmbclient 2:3.3.1-1 -> 2:3.3.2-1
[AGGIORNATO] libtalloc1 1.2.0~git20080616-1 -> 1.2.1-1
[AGGIORNATO] libwbclient0 2:3.3.1-1 -> 2:3.3.2-1
[AGGIORNATO] linux-sound-base 1.0.17.dfsg-4 -> 1.0.19.dfsg-2
[AGGIORNATO] man-db 2.5.4-1 -> 2.5.5-1
[AGGIORNATO] module-init-tools 3.4-1 -> 3.7-pre9-1
[AGGIORNATO] tex-common 1.11.3 -> 1.17
[AGGIORNATO] texlive-base 2007.dfsg.1-5 -> 2007.dfsg.2-2
[AGGIORNATO] texlive-common 2007.dfsg.1-5 -> 2007.dfsg.2-2
[AGGIORNATO] texlive-generic-recommended 2007.dfsg.1-5 -> 2007.dfsg.2-2
[AGGIORNATO] texlive-latex-base 2007.dfsg.1-5 -> 2007.dfsg.2-2
[AGGIORNATO] texlive-latex-base-doc 2007.dfsg.1-5 -> 2007.dfsg.2-2
[AGGIORNATO] toolame 02l-6 -> 02l-7
===============================================================================
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