I recently had a problem with seg faults too... this turned out to be
the permissions on the /dev entries. Adding rw solved these and
scanning works again.
HTH,
Pierre
John Gay wrote:
>
> I've been using sane for quite some time and overall, I find it to be quite
> good. I've had several problems, but most of these were due to my newness to
> Linux. I do have one problem that is still bothering me.
>
> When I turn on my scanner before my PC, sane, xsane etc all work as advertised.
> If I don't turn on my scanner first, I can use
>
> echo "scsi-add-device 0 0 2 0"> /proc/scsi/scsi
>
> as root to enable my scanner, and a cat of /proc/scsi/scsi shows that the
> scanner is recognised, however sane, xsane xsanimage all quit with a
> segmentation fault. Most of the times, I just make sure my scanner is on first,
> if I'm going to be using my scanner, but I'd like to have the option to enable
> my scanner rather than having to re-boot.
>
> Has anyone got any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Gay
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