<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Bernard,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I upgraded to 18.04 LTS. All my config files remain the same (From backups) but for some reason the scanner is now not accessible.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can find the scanner via sane-find-scanner tool</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x1705 [hp scanjet scanner]) at libusb:001:004”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Since am using scannbd I then start scanned in the foreground with </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">scanbd -fd -c /etc/scanbd/scanbd.conf</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Output is as below;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">scanbd: debug on: level: 7</div><div class="">scanbd: dropping privs to uid saned</div><div class="">scanbd: dropping privs to gid scanner</div><div class="">scanbd: group scanner has member:</div><div class="">scanbd: saned</div><div class="">scanbd: tony</div><div class="">scanbd: drop privileges to gid: 123</div><div class="">scanbd: Running as effective gid 123</div><div class="">scanbd: drop privileges to uid: 120</div><div class="">scanbd: Running as effective uid 120</div><div class="">scanbd: dbus_init</div><div class="">scanbd: dbus match type='signal',interface='org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager'</div><div class=""><b class="">scanbd: SANE_CONFIG_DIR not set</b></div><div class="">scanbd: sane version 1.0</div><div class="">scanbd: Scanning for local-only devices</div><div class="">scanbd: start_sane_threads</div><div class="">scanbd: no devices, not starting any polling thread</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What is jumping out to me is the SANE_CONFIG_DIR not set line yet my /etc/scanbd/scanbd.conf has this line uncommented</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">saned_env  = { "SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/scanbd/sane.d" } # list of environment vars for saned</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">so why would scanbd say the directory is not set?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class="">Tony</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Sep 2018, at 18:36, Tony Kinyua <<a href="mailto:tony@kysh.me.ke" class="">tony@kysh.me.ke</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Bernard,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Sep 2018, at 22:30, Bernard Badeer <<a href="mailto:bb3138@live.de" class="">bb3138@live.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Tony:<br class=""><br class="">Support for scanbd with hp5590 is integrated in the current version of sane on Gitlab<br class="">(<a href="https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends" class="">https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends</a>).<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class="">I updated the sane backends via PPA: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+archive/ubuntu/sane-git" class="">https:/<wbr class="">/launchpad.<wbr class="">net/~rolfbensch<wbr class="">/+archive/<wbr class="">ubuntu/<wbr class="">sane-git</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Read here the details on how to use it:<br class="">    <a href="https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/sane-devel/2018-June/036257.html" class="">https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/sane-devel/2018-June/036257.html</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>Made a few adjustments to scanbd configuration using the above guidelines. I now have the buttons working.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With this complete all the functions of the scanner are working in Linux as they would in Windows but with more fine grained control.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank You and Best Regards</div></div><div class="">Tony</div></div>-- <br class="">sane-devel mailing list: <a href="mailto:sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net" class="">sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net</a><br class=""><a href="https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel" class="">https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel</a><br class="">Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password"<br class="">             to sane-devel-request@lists.alioth.debian.org</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>