[sane-devel] xsane permission problem

Thomas H. George lists at tomgeorge.info
Wed Oct 5 18:55:09 UTC 2011


I understand this is a well-known problem - I have scoured the
/usr/share/docs.  Tried every remedy I could find.  No success.

System: Debian Squeeze  Scanner: Epson PERFECTION	2400 Photo

tom at dragon:~$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001
total 0
crw-rw-r--  1 root root    189, 0 Oct  5 07:45 001
crw-rw-r--  1 root root    189, 1 Oct  5 07:45 002
crw-rw-r--+ 1 root scanner 189, 4 Oct  5 12:25 005

tom at dragon:~$ ls -l /proc/bus/usb
total 0

tom at dragon:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/xsane
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root tom 640536 Sep  5  2010 /usr/bin/xsane

tom at dragon:~$ scanimage -L
device `epson2:libusb:001:005' is a Epson GT-9300 flatbed scanner

tom at dragon:~$ ls -l /dev/usb -s001:005
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04b8:011b Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 2400 Photo

tom at dragon:~$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001/005
crw-rw-r--+ 1 root scanner 189, 4 Oct  5 14:26 /dev/bus/usb/001/005

tom at dragon:~$ ls -ld /etc/sane.d
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct  5 12:00 /etc/sane.d

tom at dragon:~$ ls -l /etc/sane.d/epson*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 376 May  3  2008 /etc/sane.d/epson2.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 793 May  3  2008 /etc/sane.d/epson.conf

tom at dragon:~$ ls -l /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 928 Oct  5 12:00 /etc/sane.d/dll.conf

tom at dragon:~$ grep epson /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
# epson
epson2

tom at dragon:~$ grep -B1 011b /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules
# Epson Perfection 2400 | Epson GT-9300UF | Epson Perfection 2400 PHOTO
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04b8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="011b", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"



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