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xsane package

xsane exits exploring scanner hp photosmart

Bug #455889 reported by Cristian Molina on 2009-10-19

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xsane (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xsane

Open xsane on console
select device: hp photosmart 3180
close app on 'exploring' scanner

Works ok on Ubuntu 8.10

console output:

mega@megabuntu:~$ xsane
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".

(xsane:5644): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

(xsane:5644): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
The program 'xsane' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 32455 error_code 8 request_code 152 minor_code 5)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
mega@megabuntu:~$

thanks!
Cristian

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 19 19:34:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xsane 0.996-2ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=es_AR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: xsane
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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Cristian Molina (megatux) wrote on 2009-10-19:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (1.6 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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minispalla (minispalla) wrote on 2009-11-02:

xsane error.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain)

My xsane does the exact thing i have a hp deskjet f340 all in one

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parth (parthpatil) wrote on 2009-11-04:

I am having the same problem on my 64bit 9.10. I have a HP-Laserjet M2727 network printer/scanner

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Andy Brown (adb1413) wrote on 2009-11-11:

I actually experienced Bug #478761 today, but I saw this when I googled and thought it might be somewhat related. This is my post for that bug...

I was having a similar problem with XSane today. According to Oliver Rauch, the author of XSane, the SANE team has changed some things in the latest release of the backends that breaks compatibility. This was posted on the XSane web site in February...

"If you experience any problems with XSane and sane-backends with a version number greater than 1.0.19 then this may be caused by an incompatible development of sane-backends. In this case it may be worth to try sane-backends-1.0.19 or earlier. XSane is and will keep compatible to the original SANE-1.0 standard. I will not spend any time for incompatible things that will mess up everything."

Indeed if you look at the version numbers in Jaunty libsane is 1.0.19, whereas the one in Karmic is 1.0.20, so I suppose this kind of makes sense.

I went into Synaptic and removed xsane and its dependencies, then installed older versions from source. Now things seem to be working again with my Canon scanner. (I can scan but my preview window is a bit messed up... probably unrelated though.)

Download from:
http://www.sane-project.org/source.html
http://www.xsane.org/xsane-download.html

Hope that helps you guys too!

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote on 2016-09-04:

Cristian Molina, 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.