I have changed the severity to grave since this problem completely disables printing via cups.
I tried purging and then reinstalling the packages: cups-drivers-gutenprint cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common ghostscript-cups and cups-ppdc. Using the localhost web admin page, there are no printers installed as expected. Trying to create a printer, cups reports that it can find no printer drivers! This despite cups-drivers-gutenprint being installed and claiming to support the Brother-HL-1250 which was the target. ISTR that before I could select my printer model from a list. Now it looks as if that is somehow autodetected (which is presumably failing), unless the abscence of the list is just another manifestation of the bug or bugs. lpinfo -m is most unhelpful: # lpinfo -m lpinfo: Unknown I have attached a file of the output of lpinfo -m running under strace
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