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.
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.
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.
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?
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 006: ID 03f0:3112 Hewlett-Packard Bus 002 Device 004: ID 22b8:2ac2 Motorola PCS Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f9:0033 Brother Industries, Ltd Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:0205 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3300c
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'.
What's interesting is this:
$ sane-find-scanner
# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.
# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [HP], product=0x3112 [Officejet J3600 series]) at libusb:002:005 found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x0205 [HP ScanJet 3300C]) at libusb:002:004 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
# Not checking for parallel port scanners.
# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program.
# You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as # necessary.
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.)
This was working perfectly a few days ago. I'm not sure where else to look....
TIA, Mark