@PaulHazelden (tenuki57): I don't see "invalid argument" anywhere in the log. It looks to me that SANE did not find any scanners. Was your scanner plugged in?
What does the following return: scanimage -L ? -- 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/844582 Title: "Invalid argument" when trying to scan Status in gscan2pdf package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: I'm using a Fujitsu M3091DCd scanner with SANE. From the command line it works more or less well with Ubuntu. I can't use it with gscan2pdf v0.9.31, but gscan2pdf works with another scanner. All I get is a meaningless "Invalid argument" when I hit the scan button. When I start gscan2pdf from the command line I see these lines appearing when I hit the scan button: Error running process: Died at (eval 39) line 7. $device->start; $shash{$sane_thread}{status} = $Sane::STATUS+0; if ($Sane::STATUS != SANE_STATUS_GOOD) { print "$prog_name: sane_start: $Sane::STATUS\n" if $debug; $shash{$sane_thread}{go} = 0; die; # quickest way out of the eval block } my $path = $shash{$sane_thread}{data}; if (not open($fh, ">", $path)) { $device->cancel; $shash{$sane_thread}{status} = SANE_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED; $shash{$sane_thread}{go} = 0; die; # quickest way out of the eval block } scan_page($device, $fh); $shash{$sane_thread}{status} = $Sane::STATUS+0; close $fh; printf "Scanned page %s.", $path if $debug; printf " (scanner status = %d)\n", $Sane::STATUS if $debug; $shash{$sane_thread}{status} = $Sane::STATUS+0; $shash{$sane_thread}{go} = 0; ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: gscan2pdf 0.9.31-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Sep 8 09:44:25 2011 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= PATH=(custom, no username) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gscan2pdf UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-01 (98 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gscan2pdf/+bug/844582/+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