[sane-devel] All sane frontends segfault with my HP 5200C

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:30:41 +0100


Hi,

On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:31:38PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> $ sane-find-scanner -v
[...]
> sane-find-scanner: searching for SCSI scanners:
> sane-find-scanner: checking /dev/scanner... open ok
> Segmentation fault

Ooops. The only code from sane that's used by sane-find-scanner here
is sanei_scsi.c. The hp backend is not involved. So maybe /dev/scanner
points to your USB scanner or something else? Remove the link and try
again.

If I create a link /dev/scanner --> /dev/usb/scanner0 I don't get a
segfault but a freeze of sane-find-scanner. But this may be because of
different scanners.

Bye,
  Henning