Hello, I am running LinuxMint 20 upgraded from LinuxMint 19.3 earlier this month. The (brother MFC-J485DW all-in-one) is connected wirelessly to the network and was functioning fine after the update to Mint20 when then reinstallation of the (brother Driver Install Tool was applied). xsane .999 is the currently installed version. The printer and scanner were working fine before I updated the system earlier today which is 2020-8-24.
Below is a list of all updates upgraded and installed on 2020-8-24 one or more of which apparently broke the functionality of xsane and printing features on the MFC-J485DW today.
Command ----> "grep upgrade /var/log/dpkg.log" outputs:
2020-08-24 09:30:13 upgrade libsane:i386 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1
2020-08-24 09:30:15 upgrade libsane:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1
2020-08-24 09:30:16 upgrade libsane1:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1
2020-08-24 09:30:17 upgrade libsane-common:all 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1
2020-08-24 09:30:19 upgrade sane-utils:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1
2020-08-24 09:30:20 upgrade ghostscript-x:amd64 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
2020-08-24 09:30:21 upgrade ghostscript:amd64 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
2020-08-24 09:30:22 upgrade libgs9:amd64 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
2020-08-24 09:30:24 upgrade libgs9-common:all 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
2020-08-24 15:49:12 upgrade libsnmp-base:all 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.2 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3
2020-08-24 15:49:13 upgrade libsnmp35:i386 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.2 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3
2020-08-24 15:49:15 upgrade libsnmp35:amd64 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.2 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3
2020-08-24 16:10:34 upgrade mfcj485dwlpr:i386 1.0.0-0 1.0.0-0
2020-08-24 16:11:53 upgrade brscan4:amd64 0.4.9-1 0.4.9-1
2020-08-24 16:11:58 upgrade brscan-skey:amd64 0.3.1-1 0.3.1-1
2020-08-24 17:09:17 upgrade libsane1:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1 1.0.29-0ubuntu5
2020-08-24 17:15:58 upgrade libsane1:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1
2020-08-24 09:30:15 upgrade libsane:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1
2020-08-24 09:30:16 upgrade libsane1:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1
2020-08-24 09:30:17 upgrade libsane-common:all 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1
2020-08-24 09:30:19 upgrade sane-utils:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1
2020-08-24 09:30:20 upgrade ghostscript-x:amd64 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
2020-08-24 09:30:21 upgrade ghostscript:amd64 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
2020-08-24 09:30:22 upgrade libgs9:amd64 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
2020-08-24 09:30:24 upgrade libgs9-common:all 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.1 9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.2
2020-08-24 15:49:12 upgrade libsnmp-base:all 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.2 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3
2020-08-24 15:49:13 upgrade libsnmp35:i386 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.2 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3
2020-08-24 15:49:15 upgrade libsnmp35:amd64 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.2 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3
2020-08-24 16:10:34 upgrade mfcj485dwlpr:i386 1.0.0-0 1.0.0-0
2020-08-24 16:11:53 upgrade brscan4:amd64 0.4.9-1 0.4.9-1
2020-08-24 16:11:58 upgrade brscan-skey:amd64 0.3.1-1 0.3.1-1
2020-08-24 17:09:17 upgrade libsane1:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1 1.0.29-0ubuntu5
2020-08-24 17:15:58 upgrade libsane1:amd64 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1
Here are additional command outputs:
Command ----> "brsaneconfig4 -q | grep MFC-J485DW" outputs:
* *MFC-J485DW [ 192.168.1.23] MFC-J485DW
Command ----> "brscan-skey -l" outputs:
MFC-J485DW : brother4:net1;dev0 : 192.168.1.23 Not responded
1. For instance when I attempt to use Synaptic Package Manager to attempt to (Force Version downgrade) of the "libsane-common" package back to version 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.0 from 1.0.29-Oubuntu5.1 the (To be removed) list includes the following packages:
brscan-skey
colord
hplip
libsane
libsane1
sane
sane-utils
simple-scan
xsane
2. Is there any advice that I can proceed with here? Before attempting to revert to a earlier backup of Mint 20 or even potentialy proceed back to Mint 19.3 completely?
3. For instance looking at the above package updates list it appears the "libsane1:amd64" package is going back and forth between *.5 and *.5.1 throughout the day.
4. I'm quite confused and would appreciate your advice. Thank you for any assistance.
