[sane-devel] On upgrading to version 1.0.7 my scsi HP IIcx stops working

[Jost Diederichs]

Hello
I just upgraded to RedHat 7.3, which ships with sane 1.0.7 and my HP IIcx 
stopped working, I mean that no frontend would talk to it (scanimage, kooka, 
xsane). I then down-graded to sane 1.0.5, and the scanner works again. The 
log below shows how I first upgrade to sane 1.0.7, the diagnostic routine 
sane-find-scanner still finds the scanner but no frontend. It also shows how 
downgrading to sane 1.0.5 makes the frontends recoginize the scanner again. 
According to the SANE homepage, the HP IIcx is still supported. 

sessionlog:

[root at micky jost]# rpm -Uvh sane-backends-1.0.7-6.i386.rpm 
sane-backends-devel-1.0.7-6.i386.rpm sane-frontends-1.0.7-2.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:sane-backends          ########################################### [ 33%]
   2:sane-backends-devel    ########################################### [ 66%]
   3:sane-frontends         ########################################### [100%]
[root at micky jost]# sane-find-scanner
# Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected
# to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to the Universal
# Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS. It will even find scanners
# that are not supported at all by SANE. It won't find a scanner that
# is connected to a parallel or proprietary port.

sane-find-scanner: found SCSI processor "HP C2500A 3332" at device /dev/sg1
[root at micky jost]# scanimage -L

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
[root at micky jost]# scanimage -d hp:/dev/sg1
scanimage: open of device hp:/dev/sg1 failed: Invalid argument
[root at micky jost]#
[root at micky jost]# rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --force --oldpackage 
sane-backends-1.0.5-4.i386.rpm sane-backends-devel-1.0.5-4.i386.rpm 
sane-frontends-1.0.5-2.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:sane-backends          ########################################### [ 33%]
   2:sane-backends-devel    ########################################### [ 66%]
   3:sane-frontends         ########################################### [100%]
[root at micky jost]# scanimage -L
device `hp:/dev/sg1' is a Hewlett-Packard C2500A flatbed scanner
[root at micky jost]#