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Has the segfault bug in the epson2 driver been addressed in libsane?

Asked by Jack Klein

Please see Debian bug report #534746. This bug appears to exist in the current (1.0.20-4ubuntu3) libsane package. I am trying to use an Epson WorkForce 500 all-in-one scanner, and all attempts to query the device capabilities (e.g. scanimage -h, or initializing xsane or xscanimage) result in a segfault. The behavior is described in the above referenced Debian bug report, and is reported fixed in libsane 1.0.20-12.

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Best Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick) said : 		#1

It looks like Lucid currently has sane-backends 1.0.20-13, so it should be fixed there. Karmic only has 1.0.20-4, and it hasn't been patched in 18 weeks, way before the upstream fix was released, so I don't think it is fixed there. If it is that critical that this be fixed for Karmic, you may want to ask the package maintainers to get the specific fix backported.

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Jack Klein (kleinjb) said : 		#2

Guess I'll just wait until Lucid is released then.

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ios man (iosman123) said : 		#3

thanks very much for this - couldn't get myepson2 driver scanning with scangear till i read the line 'I added my device's network URI, a static IPv4 address, into <code>pixma.conf</code> for it to be recognized the first time.' - that was all it took