Paul, sad indeed that nobody picked up your work. I suppose it has trickled into Debian and thus Ubuntu on its own by now. Can you confirm that the problem is fixed at least in Trusty or later?
** Changed in: sane-backends (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: sane-backends (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to sane-backends in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378180 Title: Canon backend exhibits segfault during open Status in SANE-backends - Backends for SANE: Unknown Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: libsane This problem presents itself intermittently (errors approx 50% of the time). ProblemType: Crash Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/xsane NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: xsane 0.996-1ubuntu2 ProcCmdline: xsane ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Signal: 11 SourcePackage: xsane StacktraceTop: strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 strdup () from /lib/libc.so.6 sane_canon_open (devnam=<value optimized out>, sane_dll_open ( xsane_device_dialog () at xsane.c:4892 Title: xsane crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen() Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64 UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare video To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/sane-backends/+bug/378180/+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