[sane-devel] Mac OS - Mojave: sane not starting. Error related to Avahi

[Tony Kinyua]

Hello,

I have an issue with sane on Mac OS. The setup was previously working (net) perfectly but yesterday after upgrading to Version 10.14.4 (18E226) (Mojave) xsane and scanimage are crashing immediately after being started with the following error.

bash-3.2$ scanimage -L
dbus[57659]: Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!

After setting up debug more information is provided.

bash-3.2$ SANE_DEBUG_NET=3 scanimage -L
[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of net to 3.
[net] sane_init: authorize != null, version_code != null
dbus[57747]: Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
[net] net_avahi_init: could not create Avahi client: Memory exhausted
[net] net_avahi_init: Avahi init failed, support disabled
[net] sane_init: SANE net backend version 1.0.14 (AF-indep+IPv6) from sane-backends 1.0.27
[net] sane_init: Client has little endian byte order
[net] sane_init: searching for config file
[net] sane_init: done reading config
[net] sane_init: evaluating environment variable SANE_NET_HOSTS
[net] sane_init: evaluating environment variable SANE_NET_TIMEOUT
[net] sane_init: done
[net] sane_get_devices: local_only = 0
[net] sane_get_devices: finished (0 devices)

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
[net] sane_exit: exiting
[net] sane_exit: finished.

Anyone come across this issue?

Regards
Tony