Diab Jerius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Diab,

> Ok, I purged libsane-extras and ran the following experiment.  I ran
> scanimage -L 10 times in a row (log files are L.n.log) and then ran
> scanimage in acquire mode 10 times (logs are in read.n.log).  The script
> test-sane is what does it.
>
> There are separate directories for 1.0.15-9 and 1.0.15-8. A tar file
> of the logs is here:
>       
>       http://hea-www.cfa.harvard.edu/~dj/tmp/sane/20050508.1.tar.bz2

Thanks. I relocated the file to
<http://people.debian.org/~jblache/308081/>

> Note that the -L runs alternate between "normal" behavior and
> lots of resource errors.

OK. Does your scanner use a firmware ?

> In both 1.0.15-8 and 1.0.15-9, the second attempt at acquiring an
> image (read.1.log) succeeds. 
>
> (For 1.0.15-8 I cycled power to the scanner and tried just acquiring
> the image.  The behavior was the same as when it was preceded with the
> scanimage -L runs.)
>
> with libsane at 1.0.15-9, I then downgraded libusb and ran the script.
>
> 0.1.10a-8: same behavior
>
> 0.1.10a-7: at this point I modified test-sane to use 5 iterations (10
>          was taking too long), with the result that the image was
>          acquired on the first attempt. Otherwise, the pattern of
>          success/failure.
>
> 0.1.10a-6: same
> 0.1.10a-5: same
> 0.1.10a-3: same
>
> Finally, I downgraded to
>
> libsane: 1.0.15-1
> libusb-0.1-4: 0.1.10a-3
>
> Just to be sure, I rebooted after this. Same results.
>
> I wish I could tell you when I last had the scanner working, so as to
> narrow things down.
>
> Any further downgrades on libusb causes a small dependency crisis;
> I'll need a bit more time to prepare for that and won't be able to do
> anything until Tuesday evening.

Ok. Looks like a real problem.

JB.

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