(1) I've tested 'iscan' & the result is the same failure as 'xsane'. (2) I've checked the contents of /etc/sane.d as they are now, as they were at my last back-up before 180626 (when scanning worked) & as they are in the Mint partition, where scanning still works : there's no significant difference between the 3 versions.
(3) Following one suggestion, I tried renaming ~/.sane , but that makes no difference either. (4) I've run 'strace' with 'iscan' & on the Mint system : the output is at http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/xsane-trace.d1 & the other 2 "trace" files there. The Mint version seems to find a file in /usr/share/iscan-data , which the others don't find, but that file is present in my Gentoo system. Does anyone have experience interpreting Strace output files ? When I updated the kernel recently, I also had to update Nvidia-drivers. Is it possible that that could have affected Xsane + Iscan ? This really is a puzzle : any further suggestions are very welcome. Thanks again for the others so far. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
