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

[2Belette]

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]

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]

@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]

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

[2Belette]

@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]

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]

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]

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]

Owl-Maintain@0ee2128 ( 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.