Scanner not working in Ubuntu 12.04

The_Nerd · 06-24-2012, 05:59 PM

Hello all. I have been working on this problem for hours now. I had a 32bit Ubuntu 10 system and my Brother MFC-J625DW scanner was working flawlessly. I then get a new 64bit system and installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Now the same scanner WILL NOT work. I have been trying things for hours now (with the help of Google) and still no luck. My printer prints and works fine. I have installed brscan4 and brscan-skey from Brother (plus the cups drivers). I have also followed Brother's advice and copied /usr/lib64/saned/* to /usr/lib and /usr/lib/saned/. Please see below for an output of my terminal (I tried to post all needed info):

Code:

anncarol@anncarol:~$ scanimage >test.pnm
scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.88
scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 355.6 to 355.567
scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument

Code:

anncarol@anncarol:~$ scanimage -L
device `brother4:bus2;dev1' is a Brother MFC-J625DW USB scanner

Code:

anncarol@anncarol:~$ scanimage -d "brother4:bus2;dev1" -v >test.pnm
scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.88
scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 355.6 to 355.567
scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument

Code:

anncarol@anncarol:~$ cat /var/log/syslog | grep 'sane'
Jun 24 13:39:22 anncarol saned[4318]: saned (AF-indep+IPv6) from sane-backends 1.0.22 starting up
Jun 24 13:39:22 anncarol saned[4318]: check_host: getpeername failed: Socket operation on non-socket
Jun 24 13:39:22 anncarol saned[4318]: init: access by host [error] denied
Jun 24 13:39:22 anncarol saned[4318]: saned exiting
Jun 24 14:14:57 anncarol kernel: [  632.528707] usb 8-1: usbfs: interface 3 claimed by usb-storage while 'xsane' sets config #1
Jun 24 14:15:02 anncarol kernel: [  637.760308] usb 8-1: usbfs: interface 3 claimed by usb-storage while 'xsane' sets config #1
Jun 24 14:15:02 anncarol kernel: [  637.760330] usb 8-1: usbfs: process 2388 (xsane) did not claim interface 1 before use
Jun 24 14:19:03 anncarol kernel: [  879.153675] usb 8-1: usbfs: interface 3 claimed by usb-storage while 'xsane' sets config #1
Jun 24 14:19:09 anncarol kernel: [  884.634656] usb 8-1: usbfs: interface 3 claimed by usb-storage while 'xsane' sets config #1
Jun 24 14:19:09 anncarol kernel: [  884.634678] usb 8-1: usbfs: process 2935 (xsane) did not claim interface 1 before use
Jun 24 14:24:44 anncarol saned[2040]: saned (AF-indep+IPv6) from sane-backends 1.0.22 starting up
Jun 24 14:24:44 anncarol saned[2040]: check_host: getpeername failed: Socket operation on non-socket
Jun 24 14:24:44 anncarol saned[2040]: init: access by host [error] denied
Jun 24 14:24:44 anncarol saned[2040]: saned exiting
Jun 24 14:24:47 anncarol saned[2041]: saned (AF-indep+IPv6) from sane-backends 1.0.22 starting up
Jun 24 14:24:47 anncarol saned[2041]: check_host: getpeername failed: Socket operation on non-socket
Jun 24 14:24:47 anncarol saned[2041]: init: access by host [error] denied
Jun 24 14:24:47 anncarol saned[2041]: saned exiting
Jun 24 14:29:39 anncarol kernel: [  124.582215] usb 8-1: usbfs: interface 3 claimed by usb-storage while 'xsane' sets config #1
Jun 24 14:29:45 anncarol kernel: [  130.316753] usb 8-1: usbfs: interface 3 claimed by usb-storage while 'xsane' sets config #1
Jun 24 14:29:45 anncarol kernel: [  130.316796] usb 8-1: usbfs: process 2416 (xsane) did not claim interface 1 before use
Jun 24 14:37:51 anncarol kernel: [  616.592343] usb 8-1: usbfs: interface 3 claimed by usb-storage while 'xsane' sets config #1
Jun 24 14:37:54 anncarol kernel: [  619.641378] usb 8-1: usbfs: interface 3 claimed by usb-storage while 'xsane' sets config #1
Jun 24 14:37:54 anncarol kernel: [  619.641414] usb 8-1: usbfs: process 2810 (xsane) did not claim interface 1 before use
Jun 24 14:56:12 anncarol kernel: [  379.959940] usb 8-1: usbfs: interface 3 claimed by usb-storage while 'xsane' sets config #1
Jun 24 14:56:15 anncarol kernel: [  383.870299] usb 8-1: usbfs: interface 3 claimed by usb-storage while 'xsane' sets config #1
Jun 24 14:56:15 anncarol kernel: [  383.870319] usb 8-1: usbfs: process 3009 (xsane) did not claim interface 1 before use
Jun 24 15:04:58 anncarol xinetd[1005]: Reading included configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/saned [file=/etc/xinetd.d/saned] [line=26]
Jun 24 15:27:27 anncarol xinetd[975]: Reading included configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/saned [file=/etc/xinetd.d/saned] [line=26]
Jun 24 15:32:39 anncarol xinetd[965]: Reading included configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/saned [file=/etc/xinetd.d/saned] [line=26]

Code:

anncarol@anncarol:~$ ls /etc/udev/rules.d/
10-cups-printer.rules  70-persistent-cd.rules  70-persistent-net.rules  README

Code:

anncarol@anncarol:~$ ls /etc/sane.d/*brother*
ls: cannot access /etc/sane.d/*brother*: No such file or directory

Code:

anncarol@anncarol:~$ saned -a -d128
anncarol@anncarol:~$ scanimage >test.pnm
scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.88
scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 355.6 to 355.567
scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument

Code:

anncarol@anncarol:~$ scanimage -v >test.pnm
scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.9 to 215.88
scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 355.6 to 355.567
scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument

Code:

anncarol@anncarol:~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-cups-printer.rules 
# Brother scanners
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTR{idProduct}=="0282", MODE="0664", GROUP="lp", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

This file (40-libsane.rules) WAS in /etc/udev/rules.d... however I removed it to see if removing it would help... it didn't.

Code:

anncarol@anncarol:~$ cat 40-libsane.rules 
# Brother scanners
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTR{idProduct}=="0282", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

Code:

anncarol@anncarol:~$ groups
anncarol adm lp cdrom sudo dip plugdev scanner lpadmin sambashare

Code:

anncarol@anncarol:~$ cat /etc/sane.d/saned.conf 
# saned.conf
# Configuration for the saned daemon

## Daemon options
# Port range for the data connection. Choose a range inside [1024 - 65535].
# Avoid specifying too large a range, for performance reasons.
#
# ONLY use this if your saned server is sitting behind a firewall. If your
# firewall is a Linux machine, we strongly recommend using the
# Netfilter nf_conntrack_sane connection tracking module instead.
#
# data_portrange = 10000 - 10100


## Access list
# A list of host names, IP addresses or IP subnets (CIDR notation) that
# are permitted to use local SANE devices. IPv6 addresses must be enclosed
# in brackets, and should always be specified in their compressed form.
#
# The hostname matching is not case-sensitive.

#scan-client.somedomain.firm
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.1/29
#[2001:7a8:185e::42:12]
#[2001:7a8:185e::42:12]/64

# NOTE: /etc/inetd.conf (or /etc/xinetd.conf) and
# /etc/services must also be properly configured to start
# the saned daemon as documented in saned(8), services(4)
# and inetd.conf(4) (or xinetd.conf(5)).

Code:

anncarol@anncarol:~$ uname -a
Linux anncarol 3.2.0-25-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 20:30:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Please please help. I am pulling my hair out!

camorri · 06-25-2012, 01:46 PM

Does the scanner show up if you run the command 'sane-find-scanner' ( without the quotes ).

Have you got xsane installed? It is a graphical front end for scanners.

Did you install the 32 bit version or the 64 bit version of brscan4 and scan-key-tool?

The_Nerd · 06-25-2012, 04:01 PM

I haven't tried that command but scanimage -L lists the scanner (as I posted). Xsane is installed but gives the exact same error as scanimage. I installed the 64bit versions of brscan4 and brscan-skey. I tried removing them and installing the 32bit drivers but they needed a whole ton of 32bit dependencies (including libc6) so I aborted and reinstalled the 64bit drivers.

camorri · 06-25-2012, 04:10 PM

Another question,

did you follow this procedure for 12.04?

Quote:

Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, 11.4, 11.10, 12.04
1. Open "/lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules" file.
2. Add the following two lines to the end of the device list. (Before the line "# The following rule will disable ..."):

The lines to be added---------------------------

# Brother scanners
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

3. Restart the OS.

The_Nerd · 06-25-2012, 10:14 PM

Yes, I did that with no avail...

camorri · 06-26-2012, 09:03 AM

I did some googling, on the error message you are getting. I think the driver is working at this point. It appears the error

Quote:

scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument

is being caused by the backend ( the Brother driver ) not supplying default information.

I'm going to suggest you take a read through this thread

-->http://old.nabble.com/umax1220u:-san...d21060893.html

There is some very good help information there. For example, you can find out what you can pass scanimage by running 'scanimage --help' > On my scanner it gives you a ton of information.

Give it a try, and see what happens.

The_Nerd · 06-26-2012, 10:10 PM

Thank you for the replies! I haven't fixed it yet and haven't had a chance to try what you suggest camorri. I am going on vacation in two days and have been too busy. Please subscribe to this thread (if you would please) and I will start it back up in 10 or so days. Thank you again for all the replies!

camorri · 06-27-2012, 03:54 PM

No problem, I am subscribed.