Canon printer/scanner driver fails
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is about issues with Canon's Maxify MB2320 drivers for the printer and scanner. Something puts a large number of files in /var/tmp, whenever the printer or scanner functions are used. These files all start with cnij. The scanner driver is not Sane compliant. To scan the Canon app must be called from a terminal with:
scangearmp2
running that produces: "(scangearmp2:
I have posted about this at the Canon community forum and this forum today (23 Feb 16).
Per Launchpad requirements:
mark@Lexington:
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release: 14.04
mark@Lexington:
scangearmp2:
Installed: 3.00-1
Candidate: 3.00-1
Version table:
*** 3.00-1 0
100 /var/lib/
I have asked the Canon forum to better work with Linux developers towards writing Linux compatible software. I expected the Canon to be Linux compliant, not to have Canon try to make Linux comply with Canon.
These cnij* objects in /var/tmp became so numerous (305) that I received a " / is full" message. That required posts at UbuntuForum.com to resolve that problem. The 305 cnij* created 1.7gig of file space in /var/tmp. This problem must be temporarily resolved by: cd /var/tmp and then sudo rm cnij*. Then ls to see that the cnij-s* are gone.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.