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

[Peter Kirchgessner]

Hi Ben,

as I remember this has been reported before. But I am not quite sure if 
it has been fiexed in the current version of SANE.

--Peter

Ben Finney wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 09:18:20AM +0100, Peter Kirchgessner wrote:
> 
>>Ben Finney wrote:
>>
>>>I get a segmentation fault no matter what sane frontend I try.  Here
>>>is the output of an strace on sane-find-scanner:
>>>
>>there is something wrong with the device /dev/scanner. This should
>>only be used for SCSI-scanners. If this is a link to your USB-device,
>>remove the link.
>>
> 
> Hmm.  This seems like something that should be checked by the program,
> not merely assumed and left to segfault later.  Where should I report
> this bug?
> 
> It's also rather counter-intuitive; it's my primary scanner device, so
> having a '/dev/scanner' symlink is a logical policy, and not something
> that should create assumptions about which bus it is connected to.
> 
> 
>>You can try to start xscanimage like this:
>>xscanimage hp:/dev/usb/scanner0
>>
> 
> Thanks, this works great.
> 
> 


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