[sane-devel] xsane and scanimage crashes

[J.S]

J.S wrote:
> J.S wrote:
>> J.S wrote:
>>> Please ignore my recent post I made about "[sane-devel] xsane and scanimage crashes" which you can find here:
>>> 	http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2009-March/024182.html
>>>
>>> The whole message didn't go through I don't know why, so I figure I make another new one adding more info
>>> to it. You can find the whole message here at pastebin:
>>> 	http://pastebin.com/f6149238
>>>
>> Ok I managed to fix it. All I did was uncomment the following lines in the avision.conf file located at
>> /etc/sand.d/
>>
>> #option disable-gamma-table
>> #option disable-calibration
>> #option force-a4
>>
>> Then I used xscanimage and it was able to scan, preview, and save my image with no problems. But when
>> using xscan, it freezes and takes a lot of time to load up the program--I mentioned that in my earlier
>> post. When it freezes, I kill the process then I try to use scanimage -L to detect my scanner, but it
>> fails to detect it thus causing me to disconnect and connect my scanner adapter then by using scanimage
>> -L it would detect the scanner.
>>
>> When I do use xscanimage to scan my images, it succeeds and even if I kill the process, by using
>> scanimage -L it still detects my scanner no matter what. But when using xscan, it freezes, fails to
>> detect my device, and if I kill the process and check with scanimage -L, it fails to detect my scanner.
>> If you read my earlier post, I posted a small gdb error output regarding xscan in the first paragraph.
>> It's not much but that's all I can bring up.
>>
> I know this is a lot to read for devs, maintainers, and users that use the avision backend but please
> bare with me on this. If you want my not so long message description you can find it at the following
> pastebin link because the whole message can't go through the mailing list. Anyway it gives a detailed
> explanation of why "xsane and xscanimage crashes" on my system running slackware 12.2 and HP Scanjet
> 5300C. You can find my whole message here:
> 	http://pastebin.com/fe1fa85
> 
> I've been suggested by m. allan noah that I try out an older version of sane or the current cvs version.
> I'll definitely give those a try later sometime and I'll post some feedback.
> 
> Thanks for your time...
> 
More info:

I just want to clarify that I wasn't clear before. When I said I uncommented the following lines, I meant
to say that I only uncommented "#option disable-calibration" in the avision.conf file, and with that
disabled I was able to scan and save images. Now putting that aside...

I have tested out the latest cvs version of sane including the backend/frontend version of avision for my
HP Scanjet 5300C with xscanimage and xsane. I didn't have to uncomment any options in the avision config
file and I was able to scan and do the usual stuff as before, no problems. Although in the beginning of
each and every scan, I would hear a slightly small thump sound coming from my scanner. I didn't remember
hearing that sound when I was using the stable version of sane but yes the scan did go through.

Did the cvs version fix my recent freezes/crashes?...I was hoping it would but not really. I still think
that it has some sort of problem reloading the config files. To be specific, this is what I did:
	http://pastebin.com/f646d5043