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

[Umberto Cerrato]

Hi Tony,

I tried but it didn’t work. I’m giving it another try today.
Thank you.

Best,
Umberto 

> Il giorno 30 mar 2019, alle ore 08:55, Tony Kinyua <tony at kysh.me.ke> ha scritto:
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>> On 30 Mar 2019, at 02:34, Umberto Cerrato <umbertocerrato at outlook.it> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Tony.
>> 
>> Unfortunately I cannot help you, since I never had this error.
>> But I take the chance to ask you how did you installed sane-backends on macOS?
> Umberto,
> 
> I use sane-backends via the Macports environment (https://www.macports.org). I believe sane-backends should also be available via  Homebrew though I don’t use that environment (https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/sane-backends).
> 
> In my case its a simple command to have sane-backends installed
> 
> sudo port install sane-backends
> 
> Regards
> Tony
>> 
>> Please, I really need it. And many people are in need too.
>> 
>> Thank you in advance
>> Umberto
>> 
>> Inviato da iPhone
>> 
>>> Il giorno 30 mar 2019, alle ore 00:29, Tony Kinyua <tony at kysh.me.ke> ha scritto:
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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