[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1260 Photo does not work with SANE 1.0.16

[Till Kamppeter]

Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 09:14:13PM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 
>>Oi,
>>
>>after upgrading to SANE 1.0.16 the Epson Perfection 1260 Photo is not 
>>recognized by the "plustek" backend any more. See
> 
> 
> The important part is:
> [plustek] sanei_access_lock failed: 11
> 
> Maybe you don't have the necessary permissions for the lock? You can
> also disable locking during the configure run.
> 
> "export SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_ACCESS=255" should show some more details.
> 
> Search this list for more details.
> 
> Bye,
>   Henning
> 

Thank you very much. I got it working now.

What was missing was the directory for the lock files. After doing

mkdir -p /var/lib/lock/sane/

the scanner is found.

So the bug is that "make install" does not create this directory.

    Till