so i downloaded the latest sane to support my astra scanner. i ran configure, no worries, ran make, no worries.
ran "sudo checkinstall -D" and my whole box went crazy. windows started popping up, then all my gnome icons were X'ed out. finally i can not login in it says Cannot cd to "/home/jdodson" I cant login with any other user. I downloaded sane via your website, WTF kind of software is this? Some sort of trojan? it was the sanebackend 1.0.15 from here: ftp://ftp.sane-project.org/pub/sane/sane-backends-1.0.15/ I am using an old laptop because all I can do it go into single user mode on my ubuntu machine, a little help here as you caused the issue in the first place? btw I install packages from source all the time, first issue i have ever had. -- -jon http://www.jdodson.org