Hi Mono, Monosij Dutta-Roy writes:
> Hi Olaf - > > Thank you for your email and help. > > Attached are the two logs: *sane.debug.127.log.1* and *sane.debug.127.log.2*. Thanks. From your logs, the epkowa backend is activated courtesy of /etc/sane.d/dll.d/iscan, not /etc/sane.d/dll.d/epkowa. Looks like I mis-remembered :-( [dll] sane_init/read_dlld: considering /etc/sane.d/dll.d/iscan [dll] sane_init/read_config: reading dll.d/iscan [dll] add_backend: adding backend `epkowa' When looking for the backend, only the architecture specific directory is searched but the epkowa backend doesn't live there. It still lives in /usr/lib/sane, so the iscan-bundle from which you installed has not been updated for multiarch :-( [dll] load: searching backend `epkowa' in `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane' [dll] load: trying to load `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1' [dll] load: couldn't open `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1' (No such file or directory) [dll] load: couldn't find backend `epkowa' (No such file or directory) That's something that EPSON will have to fix but in the mean time, you can work around this for your particular case by one of - moving the content of /usr/lib/sane to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane - adding symbolic links from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane to files in /usr/lib/sane - adding /usr/lib/sane to /etc/ld.so.conf - adding /usr/lib/sane to LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your .profile i.e. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/sane > On running the second command the Epson scanner was initialized - by the > sounds generated. Looks like the device was found by scanimage all right device `epkowa:interpreter:003:003' is a Epson Perfection V600 Photo flatbed scanner > However, gscan2pdf still did not 'find' the scanner. So let's have a look at what sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/sane SANE_DEBUG_EPKOWA=HEX scanimage > /dev/null 2> log produces. This tries to scan with the default settings and discards all the image data. I'm only interested in the log ;-) > Again, please note this has been happening since Ubuntu 17.10. Until 17.04 > all was fine. I have been clean installing OS and installing scanner > drivers and then gscan2pdf worked fine. Distributions keep changing things and it very much looks like the iscan-bundle is not getting updated to follow suit :-( > Looking forward to your reply in what may be needed to 'find' the scanner. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
