I, too, have not seen the problem since updating. My current version is 3.12.1 which, oddly, says Copyright © 2009-2011 Canonical Ltd. Surely there's something in there more recent than 2011.
-- 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/1273786 Title: Simple Scan hangs on startup - gobbles memory Status in “simple-scan” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Response from lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 13.10 Release: 13.10 =========== To reproduce Start Simple Scan from Applications/Graphics. Starting Simple Scan appears in tray, then vanishes Process monitory shows Simple Scan running, alternating states between sleep_on_page and sleep_on_page_killable Memory used by Simple Scan creeps up to 4GB and overall system response becomes *very* sluggish. Kill Simple Scan. =========== Got this message while running ubuntu-bug: (process:5407): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed =========== Got this from running Simple Scan from the command line with --debug flag: [+0.00s] DEBUG: simple-scan.vala:582: Starting Simple Scan 3.10.0, PID=5451 [+0.00s] DEBUG: Connecting to session manager [+0.07s] WARNING: g_object_set_valist: invalid object type 'GtkAdjustment' for value type 'GtkWidget' [+0.08s] DEBUG: ui.vala:1513: Restoring window to 600x400 pixels [+0.08s] DEBUG: ui.vala:1518: Restoring window to maximized [+13.06s] DEBUG: autosave-manager.vala:127: Found at least one autosave page, taking ownership [+221.62s] DEBUG: autosave-manager.vala:481: Found a page that needs to be recovered [+221.75s] DEBUG: autosave-manager.vala:497: Restoring a page of size 10212 x 13980 [+223.08s] DEBUG: autosave-manager.vala:528: Updating autosave to point to our new copy of the page Had to kill it when the system starting freezing. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: simple-scan 3.10.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-14.21-generic 3.11.7 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-14-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Jan 28 10:14:15 2014 DriverPackageVersions: libsane 1.0.23-0ubuntu3 libsane-extras N/A hplip 3.13.9-1 hpoj N/A InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-07 (844 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) MachineType: LENOVO 4294CTO MarkForUpload: True ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-14-generic root=UUID=0ecfc571-791c-4a0f-9f60-42147e58266a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SimpleScanLog: SourcePackage: simple-scan UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-11-02 (87 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 08/02/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 8DET51WW (1.21 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 4294CTO dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8DET51WW(1.21):bd08/02/2011:svnLENOVO:pn4294CTO:pvrThinkPadX220Tablet:rvnLENOVO:rn4294CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 4294CTO dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X220 Tablet dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/simple-scan/+bug/1273786/+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
