Brother HL-L2375DW works when compiling by source but not from package manager on Alpine ?

2Belette commented 1 year ago

Would you got any idea why ?

The Brother HL-L2375DW doesn't appear in the list from the package in Alpine, but does if I compile by hand.

It seems based on the same version : https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/v3.17/community/x86_64/brlaser

craftyguy commented 1 year ago

are you building it from git master branch? I'm also on Alpine and mine also doesn't work with the latest release, but does work with the latest in git. @pdewacht do you plan to tag a release any time soon?

@2Belette if they don't tag a release, I can update the Alpine package to build from a working sha in the master branch... but that's not ideal.

QORTEC commented 1 year ago

@craftyguy I'm maintaining a fork of brlaser at Owl-Maintain/brlaser. I plan on maintaining it until @pdewacht has time to continue working on the official brlaser driver.

I'm tagging releases, have more printer definitions, and minor code changes. Feel free to take a look and use it if it meets your needs.

EDIT: The following printers have been added (upstream) since the last release [v6].

Brother DCP-L2520DW series
Brother HL-L2375DW series
Brother HL-L2390DW
Brother MFC-7420
Brother MFC-7460DN

2Belette commented 10 months ago

@craftyguy would you update Alpine package as @QORTEC suggested ? I am using his fork and working perfectly

2Belette commented 10 months ago

@QORTEC I realized I got Internal Server Error when I am installing it. I can't remember how I managed that in the past, I thought I had to install brlaser from my distro and then cp the rastertobrlaser to /usr/lib/cups/filter but it doesn't seem to be the trick anymore..

If you have any idea/suggestion

QORTEC commented 10 months ago

I build and test brlaser on Solus using the solbuild packaging tools, where its a simple cmake; make; make install. According to both pkgs.alpinelinux.org and my own solbuild results, you'll need to install two binaries:

install -m 755 rastertobrlaser /usr/lib/cups/filter/
install -m 755 brlaser.drv     /usr/share/cups/drv/

I would suggest looking at the Alpine APKBUILD, it should give you a better idea of how brlaser "expected to be" installed on your system.

@2Belette quick question, since you said cp;

are the files user & group ownership set to root
are the files permissions set to 755 | -rwxr-x-r-x

If the above doesn't help I would suggest:

posting any errors that preceded Internal Server Error if applicable
uploading the related log files

2Belette commented 10 months ago

Thanks @QORTEC .

Yes I checked and that the two files I copied. the user & group are set to root, permissions are set to 775 for rastertobrlaser but not for brlaser.drv (but all the other files don't have rx for g&o), I set to 755 anyway but same issue.

As a side note, I noticed that rastertobrlaser (~615KB) is very big in size compared to the origin (~38KB)

Here are the debug log :

D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [Client 9] 2.0 CUPS-Get-PPDs 1
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] CUPS-Get-PPDs ipp://localhost/printers/
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] argv[0] = "/usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-driverd"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] argv[1] = "list"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] argv[2] = "1"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] argv[3] = "0"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] argv[4] = "requested-attributes=all ppd-make=\'Brother\' ppd-make-and-model=\'Brother HL-L2375DW series\'"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[0] = "CUPS_CACHEDIR=/var/cache/cups"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[1] = "CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[2] = "CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/share/cups"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[3] = "CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/var/spool/cups"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[4] = "CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/lib/cups"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[5] = "CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[6] = "CUPS_STATEDIR=/run/cups"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[7] = "HOME=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[8] = "PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[9] = "SERVER_ADMIN=root@xps"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[10] = "SOFTWARE=CUPS/2.4.6"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[11] = "TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[12] = "USER=root"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[13] = "CUPS_MAX_MESSAGE=2047"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[14] = "CUPS_SERVER=/run/cups/cups.sock"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[15] = "CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[16] = "IPP_PORT=631"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[17] = "LANG=en_US.UTF8"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[18] = "REDIRECT_STATUS=1"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[19] = "GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[20] = "SERVER_NAME=localhost"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[21] = "SERVER_PORT=631"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[22] = "REMOTE_ADDR=localhost"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[23] = "REMOTE_HOST=localhost"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[24] = "SCRIPT_NAME=/"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[25] = "SCRIPT_FILENAME=/usr/share/cups/"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[26] = "SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[27] = "HTTP_USER_AGENT=CUPS/2.4.6 (Linux 6.1.46-0-lts; x86_64) IPP/2.0"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[28] = "REQUEST_METHOD=POST"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[29] = "CONTENT_LENGTH=184"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] envp[30] = "CONTENT_TYPE=application/ipp"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] Started /usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-driverd (PID 32041)
I [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [Client 9] Started "/usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-driverd" (pid=32041, file=15)
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [Client 9] Waiting for CGI data.
I [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [cups-driverd] Read \"/var/cache/cups/ppds.dat\", 75 PPDs...
I [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [cups-driverd] Read \"/var/cache/cups/ppds.dat\", 75 PPDs...
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [cups-driverd] Loading \"/usr/share/cups/model\"...
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [cups-driverd] Loading \"/usr/share/cups/drv\"...
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [cups-driverd] Loading \"/usr/share/ppd\"...
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [cups-driverd] Loading \"/usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters\"...
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [Client 9] CGI data ready to be sent.
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [Client 9] con->http=0x7fee785c6700
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [Client 9] cupsdWriteClient error=0, used=0, state=HTTP_STATE_POST_SEND, data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODING_LENGTH, data_remaining=2147483647, response=0(), pipe_pid=32041, file=15
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [Client 9] Waiting for CGI data.
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [Client 9] cupsdSendHeader: code=500, type="text/html", auth_type=0
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [Client 9] Waiting for request.
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [Client 9] Closing because Keep-Alive is disabled.
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [Client 9] Closing connection.
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] cgiSetVariable: MESSAGE=\"Unable to get list of printer drivers\"
D [25/Aug/2023:19:21:25 +0200] [CGI] cgiSetVariable: ERROR=\"Internal Server Error\"

If I delete both rastertobrlaser and brlaser.drv from my build and revert back to the original files, I don't have 500 Error anymore and I can see the list of Model (but missing my HL-L2375DW obviously)

QORTEC commented 10 months ago

Can you tell me which commit you are building against?

I just tested my printer HL-2270DW and it seems to work (Owl-Maintain v6.2.6). I'll recompile the commit verify if there is an issue on my end.

--

Is there an easy way to install Alpine Linux and get a working desktop environment? I would be happy to test the driver myself but first impression is it would be an involved process and I don't have a lot of free time at the moment.

2Belette commented 10 months ago

https://github.com/Owl-Maintain/brlaser/commit/0ee2128e220ab111c74205081e51020ad3d895e6 ( v6.2.6 )

The compile is working fine but at the end, during the make install, when the two files are copied and after the cupsd restart, that's when I got the 500 Internal Error during the Add Printer process.

For Alpine, I use sway, which is pretty straight forward to install, and Alpine has also a nice script 'setup-alpine' to set everything up. They also have a 'setup-desktop' script which allow to install 'gnome', 'plasma' or 'xfce' in one command.

pdewacht / brlaser

Brother HL-L2375DW works when compiling by source but not from package manager on Alpine ? #184