Crashed during scanning

[Alboise de Pontoise]

Binary package hint: simple-scan

Crashed on page 48 of 60. Rebooting required. Work in process lost

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: simple-scan 2.32.0.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 12 00:16:09 2011
DriverPackageVersions:
 libsane 1.0.22-2ubuntu1
 libsane-extras N/A
 hplip 3.11.1-2ubuntu2
 hpoj N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:en
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=243796b3-4ae4-44fb-bb1c-025235ece086 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SimpleScanLog:

SourcePackage: simple-scan
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-09 (2 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/23/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0206
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: M2N-VM DVI
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev x.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0206:bd10/23/2007:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM2N-VMDVI:rvrRevx.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

[Alboise de Pontoise (alboisedepontoise)]

First bug for me. Simple Scan is a very good tool. And simple. Will be glad to continue with it.

[Jose Gómez (adler-dreamcoder)]

This problem happens to me everytime I scan many pages in a row. When the RAM of my PC is over, the program crashes.

Other programs, such as XSane, scan to temporary files, so that it is not necessary to keep all the scanned pages in memory, and they allow the possibility to resume scanning what you started some other day.

My workaround for this problem, is scan in chunks of 15-20 pages, and save it as separate files. Then, I join them with pdftk:

pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf filen.pdf cat output fullfile.pdf

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

This is a collection of different bugs.
For losing the progress, see #897469
For the problems with your scanner, you might open another bug against sane-backends, but that might be without success, too.