Bug 276486 – media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.20 requires root priviledge for scanner access

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description manfred.saminger.REMOVE.SPAM 2009-07-04 17:27:06 UTC]

When using sane-backends-1.0.20, the udev rules in 
  /etc/udev/rules.d/70-libsane.rules 
contain ATTR where ATTRS would belong. Hence, device files for scanners are no longer owned by group "scanner" but "root". Therefore, only "root" can use sane-backend supported scanners.
This bug is fixed upstream in commit
  79e6e5c4203bec6b98d1d6af4d3741fedc73dcd0
(Committed after the release of 1.0.20 and no fixed release was made). The patch for this commit corrects
  tools/sane-desc.c
of sane-backends to correctly produce udev rules using ATTRS.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.20
2. Plug-in scanner


Actual Results:  
"scanimage -L" does not list scanner (it did list the scanner when using <=media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.20)

Expected Results:  
"scanimage -L" should give a list of attached scanners.

[Comment 1 manfred.saminger.REMOVE.SPAM 2009-07-04 17:29:01 UTC]

Created attachment 196663 [details, diff]
Patch for fixing udev rules

[Comment 2 manfred.saminger.REMOVE.SPAM 2009-07-04 17:29:41 UTC]

Created attachment 196665 [details]
ebuild applying attached patch

[Comment 3 Frank 2009-07-05 19:04:43 UTC]

I had the same problem and the proposed patch solved it.

[Comment 4 Wormo (RETIRED) 2009-07-09 23:34:10 UTC]

Thanks for the report, the patch, and the feedback on the patch! Assigning to maintainer.

[Comment 5 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2009-07-17 20:20:25 UTC]

Thank you very much! -r1 in CVS.