[sane-devel] xsane freezes when selecting copy or fax

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 02:44:34PM +0100, Rainer Hofmann wrote:
> I've compiled xsane-0.84 (SUSE 7.2, Scanner ACER 620ST) and scanning to mode 
> "viewer, save or email" works fine. But I run into trouble when selecting 
> mode "copy or fax". xsane freezes and the dotted selection line in the 
> preview window starts to tremble. I 've to kill xsane with CTRL_ALT_ESC. For 
> printing I use turboprint on top of CUPS. In the setup menu I replaced "lpr" 
> by "kprinter -d "...", but without success.
> Unfortunately there is no crash report or the like. Where could I find error 
> messages?

You can start xsane like that:

XSANE_DEBUG=255 xsane 2>xsane.dbg

You will get debug messages in xsane.dbg. In case it's a backend
problem, you can also set SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=255 (or the
corresponding varaiable for your backend).

If this doesn't help to find the source of the problem you can also
use gdb and set breakpoints (if necessary).

Bye,
  Henning