Package: sane-utils Version: 1.0.21-9 Severity: normal Hi,
Some (many? most?) multi-function usb printers, those that both scan and print and perhaps do something else expose only a single usb device. Therefore when udev rules assign permissions to the device based on function the alternate functionalities become unavailable. Right now /lib/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules is assigning my Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus CX3700/CX3800/DX3800 usb printer/scanner to the lp group and thereby making the scanner unavailable to the saned daemon for network based scanning. I believe the right solution is to create a new group (say, an 'mfp' group) for such multi-function devices and give the relavant daemons membership in this group. This is the only way I can see to avoid conflicts. The lameness of the hardware is not going to go away and the current situation is clearly causing problems. (See bugs #581254 and #529621.) I will update this bug with bug numbers filed against the udev and libhpmud0 packges. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages sane-utils depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii libavahi-client3 0.6.27-2+squeeze1 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.27-2+squeeze1 Avahi common library ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libieee1284-3 0.2.11-6 cross-platform library for paralle ii libsane 1.0.21-9 API library for scanners ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-16 userspace USB programming library ii update-inetd 4.38+nmu1 inetd configuration file updater sane-utils recommends no packages. Versions of packages sane-utils suggests: ii avahi-daemon 0.6.27-2+squeeze1 Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon pn unpaper <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: * sane-utils/saned_run: false * sane-utils/saned_scanner_group: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
