Server 20.04 - sane is not responding

[David Fletcher]

On Fri, 2020-05-22 at 20:21 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > 
> while it could be that saned is simply socket activated nowadays (and
> thus the disabled starte would be fine), to enable and start saned in
> a
> systemd environment you'd do:
> 
> sudo systemctl enable --now saned
> 
> 
Result:-
Failed to enable unit: Unit file /lib/systemd/system/saned.service is
masked.

administrator at ServerIV:$ ls -l /lib/systemd/system/sane*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   9 Feb 24 08:39
/lib/systemd/system/saned.service -> /dev/null
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 309 Feb 11 11:27
/lib/systemd/system/saned at .service
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 133 Feb 11 11:27
/lib/systemd/system/saned.socket
administrator at ServerIV:$ 

That one points to /dev/null, too.