A quick and easy work around for this bug (as advised by the developers over in the Debian world) is to remove your ~/.sane/xsane directory.
Problem completely fixed for me once I had removed this and allowed xsane to rewrite it. The old one was from a previous Gentoo installation and sneaked into my Ubuntu set up when I restored my home directory from back up. Lesson: don't include unnecessary .config directories in back ups of your home directory. Toby ** Summary changed: - SEGV on startup + SEGV on startup [with old ~/.sane/xsane] -- SEGV on startup [with old ~/.sane/xsane] https://launchpad.net/bugs/37968 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
