<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Hello, I am running LinuxMint 20 upgraded from LinuxMint 19.3 earlier this month. The (brother MFC-J485DW all-in-one) is connected wirelessly to the network and was functioning fine after the update to Mint20 when then reinstallation of the (brother Driver Install Tool was applied). xsane .999 is the currently installed version. The printer and scanner were working fine before I updated the system earlier today which is 2020-8-24.</div>
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<div>Below is a list of all updates upgraded and installed on 2020-8-24 one or more of which apparently broke the functionality of xsane and printing features on the MFC-J485DW today.</div>
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<div>Command ----> "<strong>grep upgrade /var/log/dpkg.log</strong>" outputs:</div>
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<div>2020-08-24 09:30:13 <strong>upgrade</strong> libsane:i386 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1<br/>
2020-08-24 09:30:15 <strong>upgrade</strong> libsane:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1<br/>
2020-08-24 09:30:16<strong> upgrade</strong> libsane1:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1<br/>
2020-08-24 09:30:17 <strong>upgrade</strong> libsane-common:all 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1<br/>
2020-08-24 09:30:19 <strong>upgrade</strong> sane-utils:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1<br/>
2020-08-24 09:30:20 <strong>upgrade</strong> ghostscript-x:amd64 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2<br/>
2020-08-24 09:30:21 <strong>upgrade</strong> ghostscript:amd64 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2<br/>
2020-08-24 09:30:22 <strong>upgrade</strong> libgs9:amd64 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2<br/>
2020-08-24 09:30:24<strong> upgrade</strong> libgs9-common:all 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2<br/>
2020-08-24 15:49:12 <strong>upgrade</strong> libsnmp-base:all 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.2 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3<br/>
2020-08-24 15:49:13 <strong>upgrade</strong> libsnmp35:i386 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.2 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3<br/>
2020-08-24 15:49:15 <strong>upgrade</strong> libsnmp35:amd64 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.2 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3<br/>
2020-08-24 16:10:34 <strong>upgrade</strong> mfcj485dwlpr:i386 1.0.0-0 1.0.0-0<br/>
2020-08-24 16:11:53 <strong>upgrade</strong> brscan4:amd64 0.4.9-1 0.4.9-1<br/>
2020-08-24 16:11:58 <strong>upgrade</strong> brscan-skey:amd64 0.3.1-1 0.3.1-1<br/>
2020-08-24 17:09:17 <strong>upgrade</strong> libsane1:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1 1.0.29-0ubuntu5<br/>
2020-08-24 17:15:58 <strong>upgrade</strong> libsane1:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1</div>
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<div>Here are additional command outputs:</div>
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<div>Command ----> "<strong>brsaneconfig4 -q | grep MFC-J485DW</strong>" outputs:</div>
<div>* *MFC-J485DW [ 192.168.1.23] MFC-J485DW</div>
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<div>Command ----> "<strong>brscan-skey -l</strong>" outputs:
<div> MFC-J485DW : brother4:net1;dev0 : 192.168.1.23 Not responded</div>
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<div><strong>1</strong>. For instance when I attempt to use Synaptic Package Manager to attempt to (Force Version downgrade) of the "libsane-common" package back to version 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.0 from 1.0.29-Oubuntu5.1 the (To be removed) list includes the following packages:</div>
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<div>brscan-skey</div>
<div>colord</div>
<div>hplip</div>
<div>libsane</div>
<div>libsane1</div>
<div>sane</div>
<div>sane-utils</div>
<div>simple-scan</div>
<div>xsane</div>
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<div><strong>2</strong>. Is there any advice that I can proceed with here? Before attempting to revert to a earlier backup of Mint 20 or even potentialy proceed back to Mint 19.3 completely?</div>
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<div><strong>3</strong>. For instance looking at the above package updates list it appears the "libsane1:amd64" package is going back and forth between *.5 and *.5.1 throughout the day.</div>
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<div><strong>4</strong>. I'm quite confused and would appreciate your advice. Thank you for any assistance.</div>
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