[sane-devel] Segfault with xsane-0.96

[Oliver Rauch]

Am Sam, 2004-09-04 um 20.56 schrieb Vitaly Lipatov:
> On Saturday 04 September 2004 19:53, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 06:09:56PM +0400, Vitaly Lipatov wrote:
> > > When I try run xsane-0.96-pre1 with old settings in
> > > .sane/xsane, I get an Segmentation fault.
> ...
> > http://www.xsane.org/
> > "Latest news". It's a known issue.
> It is too hard to explain it to users. Can we have some 
> workaround? SegFault is a bad way to recommend users remove old 
> settings.

On my todo list there is a rewrite of the preferences-storage routines,
but this will take some time. I don`t want to spend additional time
to write a workaround now and a complete rewrite soon.

Oliver