scanning with sane net backend gives "maximum amount of allocated memory exceeded"

[Philipp Schlesinger]

Device: Epson Perfection 3490 (connected via sane net backend)

Scanning works via sane and xsane. When trying to scan with simple-scan, I get:

[sanei_wire] sanei_w_array: DECODE: maximum amount of allocated memory exceeded (limit: 1048576, new allocation: 3220728352, total: 3221776928 bytes)

and a dialog saying:
"Username and password required to access 'net:hostname.local:sane_control_option(handle=%p,option=%d,action=%d,value=%p,info=%p)'"

with xsane, no username/password is needed and it should work without.

[Philipp Schlesinger (philipp-sadleder)]

Important additional information: scanning via sane net backend and simple-scan worked in earlier versions of Ubuntu (with the very same configuration of sane on client and server)

[Philipp Schlesinger (philipp-sadleder)]

The same happens when trying to scan via net backend on localhost (simple-scan and saned on the same host).
So this is not an architecture/version mismatch problem.

[Philipp Schlesinger (philipp-sadleder)]

Now that this bug ist triaged, is there additional input needed to solve that bug?
I'd very much like to be of any help if possible.

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

I do not think there is some piece of information that is obviously missing.

However, please note that I did no want to imply that someone is actually working on this -- as that would be outright untrue.

[Philipp Schlesinger (philipp-sadleder)]

Michael, thanks for your answer.

After all, while involving other hardware and client programs, the following bug looks very similar:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635914

[penalvch (penalvch)]

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

As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases your release is EOL.

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.