32 bit printer woes
2015-01-11 06:42:14.044127+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Got a Brother MFC9340CDW. Installed the drivers on my Ubuntu 14.10 laptop, worked awesomely. Set it up to FTP scans to the house server, so we can scan documents for archive by dropping them into the feeder and mashing "go". So far so good.
Installed the drivers on to Charlene's laptop, same OS, set up the printer, tried printing, nothing came out of the printer. Turned the CUPS error logging up to Debug2, everything reported success.
Struggled, wiped Charlene's laptop and reinstalled Ubuntu, still nothing. Started installing every package from my laptop, then started screwing around with printing from the house server. Same problem as Charlene's laptop.
Started chasing the CUPS tool chain, eventually ended up at /opt/brother/Printers/mfc9340cdw/cupswrapper/brcupsconfpt1 which said "No such file or directory" when I tried to run it. "ls -al" showed "-rwxr-xr-x"... Okay, let's try ldd: "not a dynamic executable". And yet on my laptop, it is. Copy that file over, diff it, same file.
Slow dawning.
"apt-get install libcups2:i386" to get 32 bit binaries on the server. Printer works.
Fuuuuu.