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jordanwb
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 Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:29 pm Post subject: [It's not XSane]Does xsane work for anyone |
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I've been trying to figure out why xsane is segfaulting (link is bug report). However the problem isn't platform specific. Running XSane-0.995 from the 32bit Ubuntu LiveCD segfaults, but for different reasons. <_<. In Ubuntu XSane segfaults when it calls g_object_ref().  Does xsane work for anyone?
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I just noticed in the backtrace for bug I filled on the Gentoo bugzilla, at the end it says
| Quote: | | Multiple segmentation faults occurred; can't display error dialog |
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timeBandit
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not a fan of XSane (I prefer VueScan) but 0.994 worked for me. I haven't tried 0.995 since I updated in December. I'll test it later and post the results (my remote account is not in the scanner group).
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jordanwb
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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I'd try 0.994 but it's no longer in the portage tree.
I also tried sane-frontends and it segfaults too, so it's obviously the backend.
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It's sane-backends. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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jordanwb,
Xsane 0.996 works for me on an AMD XP 3200+
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jordanwb
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Same for me ('cept for the processor). It was the sane-backends package. I masked sane-backends-1.0.19-r2 and sane-backends-1.0.19-r1 and now I can scan (sortof).
I can preview scan but when I do the final scan xsane seems to stall about 1/10 of the way through "Receiving RGB data".
All this makes using HP's crappy, bloated, buggy scanning software through VBox seem easy. |
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tuber
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:56 am Post subject: |
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| I'm able to scan using sane-backends-1.0.19-r1. |
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jordanwb
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^ Thanks that helps.  |
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radio_flyer
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I filed a bug report https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263824 for similar seg-faulting in the sane-backends package, in my case using an Epson scanner via USB. The same segfault occurs with either xsane or kooka, and the latest cvs didn't help. Unfortunately, segfaults seem to be fairly common with the sane backends; at least that's been my experience.
Like timeBandit I prefer VueScan anyway, but I would like to see xsane working again.
If it's a segfault, try running xsane with valgrind. That will help pinpoint exactly where the fault lies (xsane, the backend, or somewhere else.) |
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