Scanning: Sane-Backends: from 1.0.16 to 1.0.17 or Xsane: 0.97 to 0.98

[Joe Altman]

One of the two recent portupgrades seems to have broken scanning for
an HP 2200C using the Plustek backend.

One of the issues I face is that I don't recall if the upgrade for
Xsane occurred before or after I last used the scanner
successfully. 0.98a was released twice, in late November; followed
closely by 0.98b in early December.

However: prior to the port upgrade for the Plustek backend (this was
released/ported on or about 2005-12-26th) XSane and the appropriate
Sane backend worked fine. After the backend upgrade, the best behavior
I can obtain from Xsane is a core dump.

Before I submit a bug report to the Sane maintainer or the Xsane
maintainer, I thought I'd ask if anyone else is seeing this or similar
behavior:

Xsane will just appear to hang, as will xscanimage. The light for the
scanner comes on, and sometimes the scan will begin; if it does, the
light stays on after the core dump and does not return to its
bay. Both sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L work, but Xsane sometimes
eventually dumps core and xscanimage doesn't do much of anything.

Thanks in advance, and best regards...

Joe