Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) reached end-of-life on April 30, 2011.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in. ** Changed in: sane-backends (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to sane-backends in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493430 Title: without --device arg: WARNING: Unhandled message: interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable, path=/, member=Introspect Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: scanimage produces the following message every time it starts up if a --device arg is omitted. Scanning then proceeds to work correctly. So the problem must have something to do with the code which searches for the scanner: WARNING: Unhandled message: interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable, path=/, member=Introspect The scanner is an hp3030 laserjet multi-function device, hpaio:/usb/hp_LaserJet_3030?serial=00CNBM066305 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Dec 6 19:57:10 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Package: sane-utils 1.0.20-4ubuntu3 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic SourcePackage: sane-backends Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64 XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:2155): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:2155): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2336): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (nautilus:2276): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed (rhythmbox:2327): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Could not open device /dev/radio0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/493430/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

