Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 15.04 (vivid) reached end-of-life on February 4, 2016. Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-standard-support on April 25, 2019.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in. ** Changed in: sane-backends (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- 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/1427515 Title: "service saned status" fails unless called from root Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I observed the following on my trusty machine. $ service saned status /etc/init.d/saned: 73: [: =: unexpected operator saned is not running, but pidfile existed. rm: remove write-protected regular file ‘/var/run/saned.pid’? n $ sudo service saned status saned is running. In other words, the status call fails unless done from root. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1427515/+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
