Comment 8 for bug 947684

> Are there any compilation options I can re-compile simplescan with that
would provide better insight? Debugger anything?
None that I know of.

A lot of crashes with simple-scan are due to problems in sane-backends/the scanner drivers.
For more information, please read [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SimpleScanHardwareIssues

As described there, if this is a problem in the layers below simple-scan your best bet is to get in contact with the sane-devel mailing list. If it is probable that it is a problem within simple-scan, we need to further search for the reason for the problems, but honestly, manpower really is an issue :(

Best Regards
Michael