XSane Crashes at startup if scanner present

[PeggySue]

Using Ubuntu 9.10 (updated) and Epson RX620 All-in-One. This used to work in 9.04.

a) With the scanner switched off: Use Applications | Graphics | XSane Image Scanner to launch sane. Window comes up saying "Scanning for devices" then another window "No devices available".

b) With the scaner switched on. Launch Xsane as above. Window comes up saying "Scanning for devices" then Xsane crashes with no messages.

I have tried installing libsane-extras and libsane-extras-dev.
I have tried setting device permissions but to no avail.
Running from the command line indicates a segmentation error:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04b8:0811 Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus Photo RX620 all-in-one
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1058:0901 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. MyBook External HDD
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0409:0058 NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
peter@8300:~$ sudo chmod a+w /dev/bus/usb/001/002
[sudo] password for peter:
peter@8300:~$ xsane

(xsane:2193): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

(xsane:2193): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

(xsane:2193): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

(xsane:2193): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
Segmentation fault
peter@8300:~$

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 23 09:35:51 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: sane (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: sane-frontends
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[mathieg2 (graeme-salsaholics)]

Finding same problem from live cd. Waiting to run first update before I submit a proper bug report

[Kevin Moore (lockjaw)]

I think this bug may be a duplicate of bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/481283

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

does this ever occur in lucid or later?

[PeggySue (peter-peterwpaintings)]

Using the same scanner this problem is not present on Ubuntu 10.10 with kernel 2.6.35-32 and Xsane 0.997
For info it is also not present on 12.04 with Xsane 0.998.
Suggest bug is closed.

PeggySue

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Thank you for reporting back so quickly.

For what it's worth, I do still experience this in lucid, but that will soon be obsolete on the desktop.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

In case anyone is interested, I've reported my problems with xscanimage as bug 1070191