Comment 96 for bug 1728012

My Epson Perfection V500 stopped working after I upgraded from 17.04 to 17.10, as per everyone else's.

I created the softlink

$sudo ln -sfr /usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane

and created the file

$sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/79-udev-epson.rules

with content

 ATTRS{manufacturer}=="EPSON", DRIVERS=="usb", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04b8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="*", MODE="0777"

Still no joy.

>>>I then remembered to power the scanner off and on again <<<<

It works!

Thanks to all you wonderful Ubuntu users out there...