I emerged the latest version of sane-backends and xsane (using ~amd64 keyword) and added my user to the scanner group and rebooted. I run xsane from the Applications menu in Gnome and click Scan. The carrige moves along the track to the end and begins to come back. Then XSane crashes the carrige stops. I have to power cycle the scanner to reset it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run XSane 2. Click on Scan 3. Crash Actual Results: XSane crashes Expected Results: Not to crash and provided a picture of what was scanned Emerge --info: Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.28 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-x86_64-Pentium-R-_Dual-Core_CPU_E5200_@_2.50GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:05:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.3.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tera-byte.com/ http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ " LANG="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/berkano /usr/local/portage/layman/yarik-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/callisto /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/desktop-effects /usr/local/portage/layman/jokey" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 acpi alsa amd64 aspell bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr css cups curl dbus dvd dvdr emerald expat fam fat ffmpeg firefox foomaticdb gif glitz gnome gphoto2 gtk hal ieee1394 java javascript jpeg libburn libnotify mad midi mmx mp3 mpeg msn multilib nls ntfs opengl pam pcre pdf png ppds python reiserfs samba sdl spell sse sse2 ssl svg taglib threads tiff tordns truetype unicode usb xcb xml xorg xvid" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS I'm not sure if the seriousness is critical, but critical fits the description. I got the HP Scanjet 5300C (scanner being used) because Sane supports it.
How would I go about getting information on why it segfaulted?
Created attachment 181774 [details] Crash log I was able to get this when I clicked on "Aquire Preview" instead of scan. Maybe it can be of use.
XSane segfaults in Ubuntu 8.10 32Bit in VBox. I'm not sure what that would mean though.
The first thing you should try (if you did not already) is using another frontend to check whether this is actually xsane related or a backend problem.
(In reply to comment #4) > The first thing you should try (if you did not already) is using another > frontend to check whether this is actually xsane related or a backend problem. > sane-frontends segfaults too. So it's obviously the backend, I'll try downgrading.
I downgraded to sane-backends-1.0.17, and I was able to scan without segfaulting. I'm going to try sane-backends-1.0.18-r6. I wish I could edit these comments.
(In reply to comment #6) > I downgraded to sane-backends-1.0.17, and I was able to scan without > segfaulting. I'm going to try sane-backends-1.0.18-r6. > > I wish I could edit these comments. You can append one and tell me what happened with .18-r6 :-)
It would scan then it would start receiving RGB data, then it would crash. I'm not sure if it's a segfault.
Assuming you are using the "avision" backend, you can also try what's described here: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2009-March/024188.html
Yet another interesting piece of information: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2009-March/024311.html (avision backend is considered broken though the sane-project "supported hardware"-page tells the opposite.)
I'll give that a try.
(In reply to comment #11) > I'll give that a try. > Any news?
Didn't make any difference. One of those options made the preview look weird.
