With systemd used in 16.04 (xenial is 16.04, not 16.10, that will be released in october...) saned is not meant to be started manually. saned.socket is listening for incoming requests. saned is started when a program like XSane or scanimage are started and request a start of saned, too. There are quite a few XXX.service files in lib/systemd/system pointing to /dev/null. No need to remove those, since the service is handled other files, in this case by saned@.service in this case.
I'm no expert, but I read that it is necessary when in a foo.socket file an expression `Accept=yes` is used, the corresponding service file has to be foo@.service, while foo.service is not usable. I think that is the reason why it points to /dev/null Just configure the other saned-files (/etc/sane.d/saned.conf on the server, /etc/sane.d/net.conf on the client), start the socket with `sudo systemctl start saned.socket`, start up XSane, and if you didn't make any mistakes you'll find a saned process running (see my last post). -- 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: saned.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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
