Fwiw, I have an epson flatbed scanner (circa 2008) which I used to use through Gimp and xsane and noticed recently that xsane is segfaulting or something. Meanwhile Ubuntu's "Document Scanner" still works. I have not investigated in any depth.
-- Russell Senior [email protected] On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM King Beowulf <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2/13/25 18:15, Dick Steffens wrote: > > ailed to execute printer command "lp -P hpljm 148 > > > > I click Close and the above list of errors repeats. > > > > The only way to stop the circle is to click all the Ok buttons and be > > ready to close xsane as soon as I finish clicking the Close error button. > > > > That printer command may be bogus. I was following some Duck Duck Go > > search results and found something that was for a different brand, and > > duplicated it with what seems like what it would be for my printer. I > > neglected to document what was there when I started. > > > > Any thoughts on what is going on, and how to correct it? > > It depends on what CUPS printer drivers you have set up an configured. > For HP, most distros use HPLIP to set up printing and scanning. use > those tools, or open CUPS. CUPS, et al may just have gotten confused > when the printer entered a not ready error state. Did you open the CUPS > web admin page? > > http://localhost:631/admin (login with root password. No root? A fool > and his root are soon parted.) > > you can poke around and restart the printer if stuck in a not ready state. > > If HPLIP is installed, you can use "hp-probe" for device discovery. > > or just reboot. > > -Ed > >
