[sane-devel] Warnings from SNMP (was Epson Perfection)

[Charles Lindsey]

On 19/10/2020 10:32, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Hi Charles,
> 
> Charles Lindsey writes:
> 
>> On 18/10/2020 01:33, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>>> Hi Ralph, Charles,
>>
>>>>> Also, when running xsane and even simple-scan, it produced massive
>>>>> warnings of the form:
>>>>> MIB search path:
>>>>> /home/chl/.snmp/mibs:/usr/share/snmp/mibs:/usr/share/snmp/mibs/iana:/usr/share/snmp/mibs/ietf:/usr/share/mibs/site:/usr/share/snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/iana:/usr/share/mibs/ietf:/usr/share/mibs/netsnmp
>>>>> Cannot find module (SNMPv2-MIB): At line 1 in (none)
>>>>> Cannot find module (IF-MIB): At line 1 in (none)
>>>>> Cannot find module (IP-MIB): At line 1 in (none)
>>>>> Cannot find module (TCP-MIB): At line 1 in (none)
>>>>> Cannot find module (UDP-MIB): At line 1 in (none)
>>>>> Cannot find module (HOST-RESOURCES-MIB): At line 1 in (none)
>>>>> Cannot find module (NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB): At line 1 in (none)
>>>>> Cannot find module (DISMAN-EVENT-MIB): At line 1 in (none)
>>>>> Cannot find module (DISMAN-SCHEDULE-MIB): At line 1 in (none)
>>>>> Cannot find module (HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES): At line 1 in (none)
>>>>> Cannot find module (MTA-MIB): At line 1 in (none)
>>>>> Cannot find module (NETWORK-SERVICES-MIB): At line 1 in (none)
>>>>> Cannot find module (SNMPv2-TC): At line 15 in
>>>>> /usr/share/snmp/mibs/UCD-DISKIO-MI
>>>>> and much more. But I did not see them when using my own compiled
>>>>> backend-plustek.
>>>>>
>>>> Sorry, don't know about that.

> If commenting out the kodakaio and magicolor backends in your dll.conf
> does not solve this for you, you have external backends installed that
> are responsible for the "deluge".  If the plustek backend is all you
> need, simply comment out every other backend.

I had already commented out 'net' (which I presume is the only one that should 
legitimately invoke snmp); now I have also commented out 'kodakaio' and 
'magicolor', and the problem has vanished, though I still don't understand why.
> 
> Hope this helps,

It did indeed. Thank you.

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