Scanner busy

[Wim Vriend]

Each time when I start Xsane it's say, Can't find scanner, scanner is busy. When
I unplug the usb cable from the scanner and put it back, then everything works
good till I reboot. Then I have the same problem again. In Hoary it's always
working good.The scanner is a AGFA-Gevaert NV SnapScan Touch.

[Matthew Lange (matthewlange)]

Does this still happen with Breezy (final) or Dapper?

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

Your bug lacks information we would need to investigate further. We
are now going to close the bug - please reopen if you have more
information at hand.

[Ville Ranki (ville-ranki)]

I confirm this still happens on Quantal.

$ scanimage -L
device `niash:libusb:002:005' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3400C flatbed scanner
$ scanimage > /dev/null
scanimage: open of device niash:libusb:002:005 failed: Device busy
$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/002/005
crw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 189, 132 Dec 8 16:06 /dev/bus/usb/002/005

Unplug and replug the usb cable -> scanner works fine in xsane.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Wim Vriend, please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 20413

[muchasuerte (nicotra-andrea)]

I had the same behavior, I was able to solve using thats commands:

sudo mkdir -p /var/lock/sane
sudo chmod a+rwx /var/lock/sane

now xsane start without issue.

[muchasuerte (nicotra-andrea)]

my release is

Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial