> Bernd Schroeder wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 09:52:32AM +0000, Christian Asam wrote:
> > > Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > > Did you try a bunch of test without X11 running to see iff you could scan
> > > > from the command line without problems?
> > > I cant scan from the command line, as scanimage always segfaults.
> > > xscanimage works fine otherwise, standalone and as gimp-plugin.
> >
> > It might indeed be helpful to know if the same thing happens if the
> > scan is executed with scanimage.
> >
> > I have noticed a bug in the backend and (hopefully) have fixed it in
> > the 0.3 version, that causes scanimage to crash with sigsegv at the end
> > of a scan. If in your case scanimage crashes at the end of the scan, too,
> > it should be possible to view the image with xv, though. xv complains
> > that the image is truncated, but presents it properly, except that some
> > few lines at the bottom of the image are missing.
> It doesn't even scan... Here a sample:
> bash-2.01$ scanimage -h
> Usage: scanimage [OPTION]...
>
> Start image acquisition on a scanner device and write PNM image data to
> standard output.
>
> -d, --device-name=DEVICE use a given scanner device
> -h, --help display this help message and exit
> -L, --list-devices show available scanner devices
> -v, --verbose give even more status messages
> -V, --version print version information
> Segmentation fault
What happens if you strace it?
Hugo.
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