xscanimage segfaults

[Rolf Leggewie]

xscanimage segfaults when a scanner is present (similar to bug 526317)

$ gdb /usr/bin/xscanimage
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/xscanimage...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/xscanimage
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb7e75b70 (LWP 31937)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
*__GI_strncpy (s1=0xbfffefbb "\267Scan source", s2=0x0, n=256) at strncpy.c:42
42 strncpy.c: No such file or directory.
 in strncpy.c
(gdb) bt
#0 *__GI_strncpy (s1=0xbfffefbb "\267Scan source", s2=0x0, n=256) at strncpy.c:42
#1 0x08056ae5 in ?? ()
#2 0x08057ef0 in ?? ()
#3 0x0804e4e3 in ?? ()
#4 0x0804f0d0 in ?? ()
#5 0x0804f8dc in ?? ()
#6 0x00af9bd6 in __libc_start_main (main=0x804f7e0, argc=1, ubp_av=0xbffff434, init=0x805a7f0, fini=0x805a7e0,
    rtld_fini=0x11e080 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff42c) at libc-start.c:226
#7 0x0804c461 in ?? ()
(gdb)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: sane 1.0.14-9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-44.98-generic 2.6.32.59+drm33.24
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-44-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 23 07:43:39 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: sane-frontends

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I can no longer reproduce this in trusty