Brian J. Murrell, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases 9.10 reached EOL on April 30, 2011. If you have an issue in a supported release (ex. 16.04) please file a new report, and feel free to subscribe me to it. ** Changed in: sane-backends (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- 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/474203 Title: permissions on usb device for scanner too restrictive Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: When I try to use xsane as the logged in user, I can select my scanner but when I try to scan I get a I/O Error. If I simply use sudo to run xsane it works perfectly. If I use sudo to change the permissions of /proc/bus/usb/002/002 to 666 it works as a regular user. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Nov 4 08:27:44 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: libsane 1.0.20-4ubuntu3 [modified: lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules] ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-10.12-generic SourcePackage: sane-backends Uname: Linux 2.6.30-10-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/474203/+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
