# Re: message(2) - "device not available"

From: Henning Meier-Geinitz (henning@meier-geinitz.de)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 09:15:19 PDT

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  Hi,

  On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:07:39PM -0400, MRZ wrote:
  > Oliver suggested:
  > > did you read xsane.INSTALL and xsane.PROBLEMS?
  > > There are described the known reasons and solutions for this
  > > behaviour.
  > >
  > > Bye
  > > Oliver
  > I don't appear to have either of these two files, though I do have a
  > number of others in html format under "/usr/share/doc/xsane/sane".
  > Perhaps this might be because I installed xsane using debian's apt-get
  > facility?

  Probably. Check if /etc/ld.so.conf contains "/usr/local/lib". If it
  doesn't, add this entry and run ldconfig.

  > Also..
  > Henning mentioned:
  > > To see details about what the backend is doing use
  > >
  > > SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 scanimage -L
  > > SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 xscanimage
  > > SANE_DEBUG_PLUSTEK=255 xsane
  > Trying this at a console produces (identical)debug output for scanimage
  > and xscanimage; but for xsane there isn't any output at all before the
  > "device not available" dialog appears.

  If the above doesn't work, try
  SANE_DEBUG_DLL=255 xsane

  > Other things I've done include having added a path reference for
  > libraries into ld.so.conf;

  /usr/local/lib or /usr/local/lib/sane?

  What's the result of ldd /path/to/xsane?

  Bye,
  Henning

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