[sane-devel] xsane and scanimage crashes

J.S bluedbs at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 03:09:26 UTC 2009


J.S wrote:
> 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
> 
Ok guys, I have more new info. I've recovered some debug info and the first debug ouput is quite long and
the second one is a debug output of xscanimage:

SANE_DEBUG_AVISION=7
http://pastebin.com/f628cdd73

SANE_DEBUG_XSCANIMAGE=4
http://pastebin.com/f6636eb

Maybe that could be more useful...



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