Here are my latest few posts from the Ubuntu Forums: 5 Nov 12 I have a Toshiba Satellite A650 laptop (Intel I5). All worked fine in Natty, 11.04. Last month (Oct '12) I upgraded to Oneiric 11.10 and after some diddling, got everything going. I've been doing updates weekly.
Last week, I tried to use the Scanner; it just stopped being seen after upgrading to Oneiric. The Epson Perfection 4180 USB Photo Scanner stopped being seen as connected. I normally use Simple Scan. I tried XSANE, same problem. lsusb does see the scanner: Bus 003 Device 004: ID 04b8:0118 Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 4180 (GF-F600) I rebooted multiple times. No change. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Simple Scan. No change. The laptop is dual boot, and Windows 7 operates the scanner through the same USB hub etc. PS I tried unplugging the USB and replugging. No change. I also checked the kernel: it's 3.0.0-26-generic-pae. Someone suggested the drivers and programs at the Epson and Avasys sites. I downloaded them and... 5 Nov 12 Re: USB scanner not working with Ubuntu 11.10 I tried SANE before, and the output said to use XSANE instead, which I did. I will try reinstalling as you so carefully outlined. But I'm wondering why it worked before and not now. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks! OK... It worked at first. When I did the "tar... "command a whole bunch of iscan things happened. When I got to "cd iscan_2.10.0-1" There is no such directory, at least not visible from Downloads. I'll look further. OK... there IS a folder called iscan_2.10.0 without the hyphen and 1 at the end... OK... Now I'm at a standstill. I ran the ./configure command. It ended with this: "checking for GTK... no checking for GTK... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+) were not met: No package 'gtk+' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GTK_CFLAGS and GTK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details." I assume this has something to do with Gnome, which is what I run under (classic, no animation) I tried "make" anyway, and got this: "daniel@daniel-toshiba:~/Downloads/iscan-2.10.0$ make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop." Also 5 Nov 12 I installed the Dev pkg per the post you linked: sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev I then looked for libgtk using Ubuntu Software center & it said I already had it: "Installed - GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites. This package contains the shared libraries. Version libgtk-3-0 3.2.0-0ubuntu6" I ran ./config and the same GTK+ error occurred as before. I did a Google search and saw some admonishments as to using non- standard packages, but so far, not what to do if you have the package and something can't find it. Perhaps a clue is in the config files mentioned in the error message, but I don't know where those are. I searched for an hour or so, but seem to have hit another dead end. I'd again greatly appreciate your help. - - - - - A few hours later: I found and tried this suggestion: I used locate pkgconfig to find that path. Well, there were two, but this one looked more like the example in the post I saw, so I entered: PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig export PKG_CONFIG_PATH But that didn't change anything. I don't know why it's looking for GTK+ instead of GTK3. Later... I found a folder at /usr/include/gtk-3.0. there were a bunch of similarly named GTK folders which seem linked to GUIs, Python, etc. Do I need to point something to that? There was also a folder named GTK-2.0 and similarly named ones, as above. Further on 5 Nov 12 his AM I tried a few more things: $ sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0118 ) at libusb:003:007 found USB scanner (vendor=0x8086, product=0x0186) at libusb:001:003 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. I'm not sure why it found two scanners I only have one. It matches the ID of the first found device, ending in 0118. The scanner was powered on but my other USB devices were powered off (e.g. printer). Then I tried: $ sudo scanimage -L [sudo] password for daniel: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). Some of these posts go back to 2005. I guess this is a long-standing problem. 6 Nov 12 Well... I cut & pasted your Alien command and checked; it was the same as the rpm file name I downloaded. But... it didn't work. I got a whole bunch of error messages like this: error: db5 error(-30969) from dbenv->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch error: cannot open Packages index using db5 - (-30969) error: cannot open Packages database in /home/daniel/.rpmdb Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package iscan: postinst postrm preinst prerm Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts. mkdir: cannot create directory `iscan-2.10.0': File exists unable to mkdir iscan-2.10.0: at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 257. Should I try again, using the "--scripts" parameter? I'm nervous to try it w/o an OK from someone who knows what's what. 7 Nov 12 Re: USB scanner not working with Ubuntu 11.10 I ran XSane before posting this. Got the same error: No scanner detected. That's why I did the lsusb. If it hadn't shown there<, I probably would've given up. Not sure about Epkowa or what a back-end is.... drivers? I think if we got Alien to work it'd solve the problem, my friend. But then, what do I know? I'm the one who's asking for help? I think you can see why I'm so frustrated with Ubuntu right now. I'm not the only one who regrets "upgrading" from 11.04, which worked just fine in all respects. I hear (read) even more complaints about 12.04. I'll take a deep breath and go read the link you provided. OK, this is later. It wasn't much help. Seemed to apply only if one uses iScan, which wasn't necessary for me before. SimpleScan worked fine. 9 Nov 12 Another dead-end that had sounded promising. A video on YouTube covered this problem, but was for a previous version of Ubuntu. The drivers were .deb files and thus easily installed. I have problems with the rpm files though I can unpack them, I don't know what to do after that. Might buy a Mac today. Simple stuff can get very hard in Linux if you're not a whiz at the OS. Helpers seem to give half-answers and then up easily. It's not fun any more :( But... thanks for your attention! :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to simple-scan in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1073796 Title: I've "upgraded" to 11.1. All of a sudden Simple Scan won't see that any scanner is attached. Status in “simple-scan” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I've tried rebooting and all the simple stuff. Scanner is USB and all other USB devices work fine. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: simple-scan 3.2.1-0ubuntu1~oneiric1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-26.43-generic-pae 3.0.43 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-26-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Oct 31 20:20:51 2012 DriverPackageVersions: libsane 1.0.22-2ubuntu2 libsane-extras N/A hplip 3.11.7-1ubuntu3.1 hpoj N/A InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite A665 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-26-generic-pae root=UUID=82a5b25a-b719-49e7-866c-7ccfb00d294f ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SimpleScanLog: SourcePackage: simple-scan UdevDb: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 07/13/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA dmi.bios.version: 2.10 dmi.board.asset.tag: NULL dmi.board.name: PHQAA dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA dmi.board.version: 1.00 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: * dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvr2.10:bd07/13/2011:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteA665:pvrPSAW6U-002023:rvnTOSHIBA:rnPHQAA:rvr1.00:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: Satellite A665 dmi.product.version: PSAW6U-002023 dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/simple-scan/+bug/1073796/+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