A while back I posted about my new HP J3600 scan/fax/copy/print-er and how it was visible to the root but not me as an ordinary user. I had no trouble configuring it as a printer, but the scanner was invisible to xsane until I added my user id to the lp group.<br>
<br>Now it's gone again, except that it is visible as a usb device to me as a normal user, but xsane can't seem to find it any more.<br><br>Since this was working on the 2.6.18-194.11.4 kernel, I rebooted that one, but it exhibited the same behavior, so I wrote off the new (...17.1) kernel as innocent. However, I am getting an error during startup on hpssd - it complains about python-dbus being missing. I can't find that either, but there _is_ a dbus-python 0.70 installed and it wants a version > 0.80, so I hauled down 0.83, built it and installed it and that didn't seem to help.<br>
<br>I will try that when I have a few minutes to take the system down again, but in the mean time, can anyone hazard a guess at what's wrong?<br><br>$ lsusb<br>Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 <br>Bus 002 Device 006: ID 03f0:3112 Hewlett-Packard <br>
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 22b8:2ac2 Motorola PCS <br>Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 <br>Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f9:0033 Brother Industries, Ltd <br>Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:0205 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3300c<br><br>It's Bus 2, Dev 6. There is nothing in any of the /var/log/* files to indicate any kind of problem for yesterday, when the problem appeared, other than my fumbled three attempts to input the password for 'sudo xsane'.<br>
<br>What's interesting is this:<br><br>$ sane-find-scanner<br><br> # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the<br> # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your<br> # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.<br>
<br> # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that<br> # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.<br><br>found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [HP], product=0x3112 [Officejet J3600 series]) at libusb:002:005<br>
found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x0205 [HP ScanJet 3300C]) at libusb:002:004<br> # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by<br> # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.<br>
<br> # Not checking for parallel port scanners.<br><br> # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports<br> # can't be detected by this program.<br><br> # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you<br>
# found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as<br> # necessary.<br><br>So, sane-find-scanner finds the scanner, but xsane does not??? (For the record, on the 11.4 kernel, sane-find-scanner could _not_ find the scanner, but that was before I installed the newer dbus-python.)<br>
<br>This was working perfectly a few days ago. I'm not sure where else to look....<br><br>TIA,<br>Mark<br><br>