[sane-devel] xsane permission problem

[Thomas H. George]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 05:03:53PM -0400, m. allan noah wrote:
> What is the problem exactly?
> 
> allan
> 
Both xsane and xscanimage fail with segfault before trying to run the
scanner.  See my latest post to the Permission Problem with xsane
thread.  I have given up trying to resolve this problem and switched to
the Epson iscan package.

Tom


> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Thomas H. George <lists at tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:03:49PM -0400, m. allan noah wrote:
> >> the device is set to be rw for group scanner. Is your user in group scanner?
> >>
> >> allan
> >>
> > tom at dragon:/lib$ less /etc/group
> >
> > ... clip ...
> >
> > tom:x:1000:
> > scanner:x:114:saned,tom,lp
> > saned:x:115:
> >
> > ... clip ...
> >
> > tom at dragon:/lib$ exit
> >
> >
> > tom at dragon:~$ groups tom
> > tom : tom adm lp mail dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev staff Debian-exim powerdev netdev scanner fuse
> >
> > tom at dragon:~$ groups scanner
> > groups: scanner: No such user
> >
> >> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Thomas H. George <lists at tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> >> > 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  [0m [40;33;01m001 [0m
> >> > crw-rw-r--  1 root root    189, 1 Oct  5 07:45  [40;33;01m002 [0m
> >> > crw-rw-r--+ 1 root scanner 189, 4 Oct  5 12:25  [40;33;01m005 [0m
> >> >
> >> > 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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