You know, it is truely amazing to me that this kind of failure to provide a properly working application will continue, apparently, without any hope for change, forever.
This particular crash with old "$HOME/.sane" files has been know since at least 2004: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2004-October/008823.html Here I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, and on into 2009 June, and still, _exactly_ the same broken behavior, more than _5_years_on. At some point, a reasonable person would come to realize the nature of a pattern, in this case, that xsane will _always_ and _forever_ seg fault on startup with old .sane config files. Then, of course, the man page should politley inform the casual user of this "feature" by explaining that "xsane will indicate an upgrade by crashing with a segmentation fault", right? And then this casual user will know exactly what to do next, with themselves, right? In contrast, a self-deluded person would insinuate to other people the fraudulent claim that "Yes, will will make xsane run without crashing, and we will make xsane report truely _useful_ error messages to the casual user, guiding them toward a course of action which will lead to full xsane functionality". Gee, doesn't that sound nice - so friendly and reassuring - and such a lie nonetheless. My "xsane" package tells me: Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Julien BLACHE <jbla...@debian.org> "Who are those guys?" I wonder. Some anonymous, faceless "them" perhaps. I suppose that means that, really, there is no "maintainer", or that, maybe, this "maintainer" is some self-deluded crazy person, who thinks, with all sincerity, that "segmentation fault" is a proper type of error response for my grandmother, trying to use her scanner with this Ubuntu thing. Aren't corporate free-software distributions wonderful?! And why, really, would all those silly users waste their time, finding problems and entering bug reports, when they can just as easily go bang their heads against brick walls? Oh, and don't forget that other wonderful Ubuntu xsane feature, attaching the scanner with no user pemissions, no users in group "scanner", no error messages, no installation instructions, and no notes in the man pages, just that tried-and-true "segmentation fault" to warm the heart! Ah, where would we be without these jovial "Ubuntu Core Developers" watching over my grandmother, now, and into the future? "Y'all get back to us, real soon now!" Like, anytime within the next 100 years or so will be fine, I'm sure. Don't hurry on my account. 'Cause I know how to use Google to fix problems - and many of those other poor Ubuntu losers - like my grandmother - don't. Hey, if they can't take a joke, screw 'em, right? -- xsane crashes on startup with sigsegv https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217524 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
