Server 20.04 - sane is not responding
David Fletcher
dave at thefletchers.net
Fri May 22 17:36:45 UTC 2020
Hi all,
I recently upgraded my home server from the 32 bit board that's been
running for the last 10 years to a 64 bit industrial mini ITX board.
Until then I was running 14.04 with which everything was working
perfectly including networked scanning. Uptime when I switched it off
was 332 days. All I needed to do was put the local network address into
saned.conf and it "Just Worked".
Now, sane just won't work. I start xsane on the desktop computer, it
puts up the message box that it's searching for scanners for a few
seconds then gives up and says it can't find any.
Now, I've seen a lot of vitriol spoken about systemd but this is the
first time I've met it. Apparently it is the source of my sane problem
but I have no idea how to fix it. Google searching produced some hits
from a couple of years ago so it was a problem then and for me is a
problem now.
Can I please get a little advice, preferably simple, to get sane
listening to my network again?
My google searching produced a couple of diagnostic commands such as
administrator at ServerIV:~$ service --status-all
[ - ] apache-htcacheclean
[ + ] apache2
[ + ] apcupsd
[ + ] apparmor
[ + ] apport
[ + ] atd
[ + ] avahi-daemon
[ + ] boinc-client
[ - ] console-setup.sh
[ + ] cron
[ - ] cryptdisks
[ - ] cryptdisks-early
[ + ] cups
[ + ] cups-browsed
[ + ] dbus
[ + ] dovecot
[ + ] grub-common
[ - ] hwclock.sh
[ + ] irqbalance
[ - ] iscsid
[ - ] keyboard-setup.sh
[ + ] kmod
[ - ] lvm2
[ - ] lvm2-lvmpolld
[ + ] multipath-tools
[ - ] open-iscsi
[ - ] open-vm-tools
[ - ] plymouth
[ - ] plymouth-log
[ + ] postfix
[ + ] procps
[ - ] rsync
[ + ] rsyslog
[ - ] saned
[ - ] screen-cleanup
[ + ] ssh
[ + ] udev
[ + ] ufw
[ + ] unattended-upgrades
[ - ] ups-monitor
[ - ] uuidd
[ - ] x11-common
I guess that the [ + ] means that the service is working, the [ - ]
means that it isn't, so I guess my question is, how do I change the [ -
] next to saned into a [ + ]?
It's probably nothing to do with the problem, but I can't help noticing
that everything I manually installed myself with aptitude such as the
mail server stuff, apache, APC UPS, cups, is all working but I'm pretty
sure I didn't install sane myself. If I were to purge sane then
reinstall it manually, any chance it would then work? Just a thought...
Thanks for reading and for any help received.
Dave
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