[sane-devel] improve scanbd for Debian

[Wilhelm]

Am 17.12.2014 um 12:29 schrieb Thorsten Müller:
> Am Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2014, 16:47:31 schrieb Rolf Leggewie:
>> On 12.12.2014 13:58, Wilhelm wrote:
>>> Be sure that scanbd uses the correct location of libsane config
>>> files
>>> (see ReadMe). In most cases this will be a seperate directory (e.g.
>>> /etc/scanbd) where all configs and dll.conf are. This dll.conf must
>>> not contain the net-backend.
>>>
>>> On the other hand the standard libsane config location (/etc/sane)
>>> has to contain a dll.conf with only the net backend.
>>>
>>> I changed trunk to include an additional debug output to log the
>>> env-var SANE_CONFIG_DIR. Please check the startup-script if the
>>> right dir ist set ...
>>
>> SANE_CONFIG_DIR is set to /etc/scanbd.  

good

>> The dll.conf files were not
>> set up according to above requirements but when I changed them that
>> way everything stopped working, including scanbd from the command
>> line or even "scanimage -L".  

what stopped working?

>> sane-find-scanner would continue to
>> find the device, though.

without SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/scanbd? should not happen (s. ReadMe), but

SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/scanbd scanimage -L

should list the scanner.


>> Before I attempted to change things, /etc/scanbd/dll.conf contained
>> ONLY the net backend 

wrong

>> and /etc/sane.d/dll.conf contained a whole bunch
>> of backends including genesys and net.

wrong: should only contain net backend

So, it looks like you swapped the config: please read the ReadMe carefully.

All - also local - clients must use the net-backend! This is because the
real device is locked due to scanbd polling the buttons. If a network
connection arrives (from local or remote client), scanbm (or scanbd -m)
stops scanbd from polling, releasing the devices an starts saned.

>> I've managed to get /etc/scanbd/dll.conf to contain ONLY the genesys
>> backend (dropped the net backend) without breaking anything that was
>> previously working.  Now it's on to get saned to work over the network
>> which I remember from a few years ago when I did this for actually
>> scanning across the LAN to be a horrible config nightmare.
>>
>> I will need to look into how to make that part work as expected and
>> then I will need to figure out how to make sure that the Debian users
>> have a proper setup.  This will be complicated since it involves the
>> configuration files for a separate package.
>>
>> On 12.12.2014 15:32, Simon Matter wrote:
>>>> Given that you were unable to see any difference I started a re-run
>>>> and inserted some markers into syslog with the logger command to
>>>> make sure I will be able to gather what happened when this time. 
>>>> From what I understand now, it seems that the scanner is indeed
>>>> NOT recognized.  How can that come about, especially given that on
>>>> a call from the command-line things work just fine with the same
>>>> configuration?> 
>>> That sounds like a kind of permission problem. Is there something
>>> like udev granting access to the device for locally logged in users
>>> which does not happen when started iva init?
>>
>> Simon, permissions problem was my first thought as well.  But I had
>> run a few tests already and kind of ruled that out.  This included
>> setting user and group in scanbd.conf to root.root.  I verified with
>> ps that scanbd was indeed running as the root user but even then the
>> buttons did not trigger a reaction.
>>
>> When I call scanbd from the command line the script does not switch to
>> the saned user.  It only does this (for understandable reasons) when
>> called as "sudo scanbd -f".  But even then, the buttons work.
> 
> I found this thread just now. It's a good thing you try to build a 
> debian package for scanbd. For my own purposes, I built a dabian package 
> from scanbd to work on my Kubuntu 12.04 LTS system that sets up 
> everything to work as expected. If you are interested, I could mail the 
> *.debian.tar.gz file so you can check out what I did to make things 
> work. My local scanner is a Canon LiDE 210 which uses the genesys 
> backend as well, so your setup should be very similar to mine.
> 
> My package depends on libsane 1.0.24 or higher since earlier versions 
> don't supoprt the five front panel buttons on my LiDE 210.
> 
> The package is built with scanbd 1.4.0
> 
> Greetings
> Thorsten
> 


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Wilhelm
w.meier at unix.net