It is possible that saned or inetd is already listening on that port- What does netstat -an show for port 6566?
allan On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Matt Burkhardt <mlb at imparisystems.com>wrote: > I can't get my saned to start up anymore on my headless server. It was > scanning in very nicely with my HP C3100 printer / scanner. > > I looked around - and this is what's showing up in my syslog > > Feb 13 11:44:58 ubuntu saned[22249]: saned (AF-indep+IPv6) from sane-backends > 1.0.20 starting up > Feb 13 11:44:58 ubuntu saned[22249]: do_bindings: [1] bind failed: Address > already in use > Feb 13 11:44:58 ubuntu saned[22249]: do_bindings: [0] bind failed: Address > already in use > Feb 13 11:44:58 ubuntu saned[22249]: do_bindings: couldn't bind an address. > Exiting. > Feb 13 11:44:58 ubuntu saned[22249]: FATAL ERROR; bailing out, waiting for > children... > Feb 13 11:44:58 ubuntu saned[22249]: bail_out: all children exited > > > After doing some digging, some people mentioned this was due to a missing > entry in my /etc/hosts file - but it seems like everything is there > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 192.168.1.100 ubuntu.local ubuntu > > # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts > ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback > fe00::0 ip6-localnet > ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix > ff02::1 ip6-allnodes > ff02::2 ip6-allrouters > ff02::3 ip6-allhosts > > > Any ideas on what to look for? > > Thanks, > > -- > Matt Burkhardt > Impari Systems, Inc. > > mlb at imparisystems.com > http://www.imparisystems.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlburkhardt > http://www.twitter.com/matthewboh > 502 Fairview Avenue > Frederick, MD 21701 > work (301) 682-7901 > cell (301) 802-3235 > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20110215/484abcb7/attachment.htm>