Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xsane

Start xsane, press any one of [preview], [scan], [calibrate], can hear
the scanner head moving as normal for about 2 or 3 seconds, then
nothing. At this point the xsane dialogs can be repositioned but their
contents do not redraw. After about 10 minutes the scanner head can be
heard moving back to park (I assume). Xsane is still not responsive and
must be [Force Quit].

On repeat runs after force quit and not waiting for the scanner to move
back to park by itself, during the xsane initialization phase I hear the
normal sounds of the scanner waking up and getting ready. (I've used
this scanner for a couple of years under windows 2000, before switching
to ubuntu full time this last spring).

I've installed (well enabled really) the scanner by editing
/etc/sane.d/dll.conf and uncommenting "canon_pp";  then set permissions
on /dev/parport0 to 777 so I don't have to always run xsane as root
(c.f. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsScannersCanon,
2007-Sep-06 entry for FB630P)

I get the same behaviour regardless of whether I run xsane from root or
user.

Following the advice in the thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2753887&postcount=22 I've
captured debug logging output. Further on in that same thread there are
suggestions to try forcenibble in the dll.conf, which I've also tried
with no observable change. My parallel port is set to EPP in BIOS (ASUS
M2NPV-VM ACPI BIOS Revision 0603).

$ export SANE_DEBUG_CANON_PP=100
$ xsane 1> xsane.log 2> xsane.err

In preparing this bug report I've repeated these steps about a dozen
times, the third last time, the scan actually worked. On the following
attempt, there were about 3 rows of pixels in the preview window before
it stalled. On all previous attempts I saw nothing in the preview window
but the sane logo. There is a thread in ubuntu forums describing a
similar problem with no resolution
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2763187&postcount=27)

I'm a little confused as there is both a /etc/sane.d/dll.conf and a
/etc/sane.d/canon_pp.conf and their contents are near identical for the
first 37 lines. However setting forcenibble in either one seems to work.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Dec  1 21:30:33 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: hal 0.5.9-1ubuntu2~feisty1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: hal
Uname: Linux ubuntu-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:31:23 UTC 
2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

** Affects: xsane (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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canoscan FB330P starts scan, then stalls
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173393
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