I have the same problem, but at least found a workaround. The man-page for saned (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/saned.8.html) shows a solution using systemd. Two config-files are needed in /etc/systemd/system, saned.socket and [email protected].
With those files saned seem to work, even though it is masked. scanimage -L shows the network scanners, and xsane and other programmes can access those scanners without problems. ** Attachment added: "[email protected]" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1577137/+attachment/4666731/+files/saned%40.service -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to sane-backends in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1577137 Title: sane service masked and cannot be unmasked Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After upgrading to 16.04 (from 14.04) I noticed the sane daemon (sane- utils 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2) was no longer running. Attempting to manually start it results in systems complaining that the service is masked: kjetil at lucien in ~> sudo systemctl start saned Failed to start saned.service: Unit saned.service is masked. Unmasking it does not work: kjetil at lucien in ~> sudo systemctl unmask saned kjetil at lucien in ~> sudo systemctl start saned Failed to start saned.service: Unit saned.service is masked. kjetil at lucien in ~> ps u -C saned USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND kjetil at lucien in ~> ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: sane-utils 1.0.25+git20150528-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun May 1 13:10:31 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-08-01 (1368 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120424.1) SourcePackage: sane-backends UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-24 (6 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.default.saned: 2016-05-01T12:51:02.879807 mtime.conffile..etc.sane.d.saned.conf: 2016-01-10T13:57:20.785810 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1577137/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
