jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Hi,
> JB> What happens if you run xsane outside of gimp? > It says scanning for devices, no devices available (I don't want to > connect and power up my old scanner), I click close. Then nothing > happens. strace says: > futex(0x8614250, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL > I have to ^C to get back to the shell. So it works fine, actually. > Anyways, I only use the scanner once every two years, so I hope no > probing will occur just to start gimp. The problem with GIMP is probably due to one backend or another misbehaving when run through GIMP. That's been a standard issue for pretty much forever. See if you can find which backend is reponsible for the hang, by setting SANE_DEBUG_DLL to something like 128. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <jbla...@debian.org> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
