# Re: Problems with Microtek ScanMaker 630

Christian Asam (Christian.Asam@gmx.de)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 09:52:32 +0000

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Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Christian Asam wrote:
>
> > Bernd Schroeder wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 08:48:30PM +0000, Christian Asam wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > the problems are:
> > > > - total system crashes (the console, X and the network are dead, the
> > > > only way to get the system up again is to reset it...)
> > >
> > > Hhm, I have never experienced that the whole system gets locked. Does
> > > this happen always or only under certain circumstances ?
> > Mostly when scanning, but not always...
> > Yesterday I started scanning 300x300 24Megs and it locked up after a
> > second. When I tried to scan 16M, it locked up after 10 or so.
> > But later I was able to scan 80M without problems...
> >
> > Once I had such a lockup under Netscape, without scanning, but that was
> > incomplete at first: I could login with the ssh and kill & restart X,
> > but couldn't shut it down sensibly without it locking up the system.
> > I usually am used to that with Windows, but not with Linux.
> > That system ran stable before.
>
> Did you try a bunch of test without X11 running to see iff you could scan
> from the command line without problems?
I cant scan from the command line, as scanimage always segfaults.
xscanimage works fine otherwise, standalone and as gimp-plugin.
And I didn't feell like going through scanimage with a debugger to find
the reason for the segfaults.
The system is glibc-based, what might be a contributing factor.
>
> My idea is that you exhaust X11 to a level where it can't recover and
> breaks down the lot.
But should that cause a complete kernel crash?

cu

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