[PLUG] xsane error

[Russell Senior]

Fwiw, I have an epson flatbed scanner (circa 2008) which I used to use
through Gimp and xsane and noticed recently that xsane is segfaulting
or something. Meanwhile Ubuntu's "Document Scanner" still works. I
have not investigated in any depth.

-- 
Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM King Beowulf
<kingbeowulf at linuxgalaxy.org> wrote:
>
> On 2/13/25 18:15, Dick Steffens wrote:
> > ailed to execute printer command "lp -P hpljm 148
> >
> > I click Close and the above list of errors repeats.
> >
> > The only way to stop the circle is to click all the Ok buttons and be
> > ready to close xsane as soon as I finish clicking the Close error button.
> >
> > That printer command may be bogus. I was following some Duck Duck Go
> > search results and found something that was for a different brand, and
> > duplicated it with what seems like what it would be for my printer. I
> > neglected to document what was there when I started.
> >
> > Any thoughts on what is going on, and how to correct it?
>
> It depends on what CUPS printer drivers you have set up an configured.
> For HP, most distros use HPLIP to set up printing and scanning.  use
> those tools, or open CUPS. CUPS, et al may just have gotten confused
> when the printer entered a not ready error state.  Did you open the CUPS
> web admin page?
>
> http://localhost:631/admin (login with root password.  No root?  A fool
> and his root are soon parted.)
>
> you can poke around and restart the printer if stuck in a not ready state.
>
> If HPLIP is installed, you can use "hp-probe" for device discovery.
>
> or just reboot.
>
> -Ed
>
>