Unable to scan in GIMP

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

I am using gimp2.0-quiteinsane package to scan images in GIMP. But as it got dropped from archive I looked at alternatives - xscanimage looked like the only option.

But each time when I press "Acquire preview" button in xscanimage it crashes. Quiteinsane works without problems so it rather not permissions issue.

Scanner is Epson Stylux DX4050 multi function device:

Bus 005 Device 004: ID 04b8:082f Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus DX4050

21:25 hrw@puchatek:~$ sane-find-scanner |grep -v \#
Found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x082f [USB MFP]) at libusb:005:004

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: sane 1.0.14-9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.1.0-2.3-generic 3.1.0
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.26-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 19 21:16:41 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
SourcePackage: sane-frontends
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3)]

We recommend Simple Scan for scanning, but I'm assigning to the Desktop Team so they can take a look

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Can you please report the xscanimage crash with apport, so that we get a proper backtrace? This will create a new report, so I'm closing this one.

Also, I'm regularly using simple-scan, which is working perfectly here. We do so support that (we don't support xscanimage), so crash reports there have a much higher chance of being worked on.

Thanks!