saned fails in standalone mode

[JK]

Hi!

 I have an Ubuntu 10.10 server installation (upgraded from 10.04) and saned is causing problems. When started in standalone mode (-a) it always creates 2 processes. One works normally, the other one constantly writes errors to syslog. On my atom machine this behaviour results in appr. 170% CPU load (constantly), making the system almost unusable.

 The same bug already existed in 10.04 but seems to be fixed upstream:

https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=410366&aid=312422&group_id=30186

It seems that saned fails to detach from init after startup...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: sane-utils 1.0.21-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 6 15:31:35 2010
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: sane-backends

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

This is similar to my bug #656675 but saned still functions.

[JK (m0d)]

Actually it is the same bug, but in your case the second saned process doesn't constantly spam syslog. I've did some more tests and it seems that the syslog-spamming does not always occur on my machine (may be a race condition). As a workaround I wrote a tiny script that kills the second saned process during startup. However, it would be great if the fixed upstream version would be provided as a regular update...

[penalvch (penalvch)]

JK, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases 10.10 reached EOL on April 10, 2012.

If you have an issue in a supported release (ex. 16.04) please file a new report, and feel free to subscribe me to it.