Wolf, the apport-collect not working must be due to a limitation of apport with sane-backends. sane-backends is a meta package that represents all the different packages it provides as per: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends
Hence, let this step be skipped. Despite this, to further narrow this down, did this problem not occur in a Ubuntu release prior to 16.10? Given this works in Debian 8.6, and prior versions of Ubuntu are similar to this, this is likely a regression in Ubuntu also. -- 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/1643544 Title: HP Scanjet 7400c Scanner locks USB2 port Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When trying to scan with the hp7400c (avision backend), the scanner will stop in the middle of the page, no further commands on a USB mouse or keyboard are possible. xsane will throw a I/O device error. This happens on my desktop with ubuntu 16.10 (Kernel 4.8.0-27) and my laptop (kernel 4.4.0-38) NO USB3 hardware is involved in my case, both machines have USB2-ports only, lsmod does NOT show and xhci modules loaded. I tried the command SANE_DEBUG_AVISION=8 SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=5 scanimage > scanfehlerxx.txt and produced the files attached. The key statement might be: [sanei_usb] sanei_usb_read_bulk: trying to read 61054 bytes [sanei_usb] sanei_usb_read_bulk: read failed: No such device (it may have been disconnected) [avision] read 0 bytes [avision] No data arrived. This error occurs as well with Fedora 24, but NOT with debian 8.6. So it may be related with the more recent kernels and their behaviour on the USB ports. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1643544/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp