# Re: xscanimage won't start

Mathias Koerber (mathias@koerber.org)
Sat, 27 Dec 1997 15:45:41 +0800 (SGT)

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On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Jeremy Rosenberger wrote:

| Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 00:38:25 -0700
| From: Jeremy Rosenberger <jeremyr@gte.net>
| Reply-To: sane-devel@mostang.com
| To: SANE Development Mailing List <sane-devel@mostang.com>
| Subject: Re: xscanimage won't start
|
| Lutz Stege (lutz@cenit3.muc.bmw.de) wrote:
|
| > Using sane 0.68.1 with Linux 2.0.32 I had a problem with starting
| > xscanimage. Although setting SANE_DEBUG_DLL to 128, there is no error, no
| > warning, no info onto the screen. No xscanimage comes up, only the new
| > prompt will appear. Nevertheless scanimage works very well. With sane 0.63
| > xscanimage worked fine. Any ideas? Perhaps there is something wrong with a
| > dynamic library?

Try running xscanimage under strace, ie
$ strace -o /tmp/scan.trace xscanimage ....

Them examime the output file for signals and other errors.

regards

|
| Unfortunately, I don't have a solution to you, but I can share that I'm
| having the same problem on Red Hat Linux 5.0 (kernel 2.0.33). Again,
| scanimage works fine, but xscanimage terminates immediately upon being
| run, with no output or anything. Even xscanimage -h does nothing.
|
| In addition, when the GIMP (0.99.16) attempts to autodetect xscanimage
| as a plug-in, I get the following message:query plug-in:
|
| "/usr/local/lib/gimp/0.99/plug-ins/xscanimage"
|
| /usr/local/lib/gimp/0.99/plug-ins/xscanimage: Segmentation fault
| caught
| [n]othing, [e]xit, [s]tack trace, [a]ttach to process:
|
| Curiously, this is also happening with the jpeg and xpm plug-ins. If
| anybody has any ideas, I'd love to hear them! Thanks!
|
| Regards,
| Jeremy
|
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