Simple Scan crashes on save

Could you run with simple-scan -d and paste the output here?

Also, does this always occur? Does it occur when saving only one page?

Attaching output from "simple-scan -d".

I also verified that a single page scan does seem to work. (However, I notice that the page is scanned 90 degrees sideways, but...it works, and you're kind enough to provide the rotation buttons :-)

Hi Jay,

Is this still a problem? The crash shows that is is ImageMagick that is crashing, I haven't had any duplicates so I'm thinking there is a problem in your installation.

You can test ImageMagick by making some TIFF and JPEG files (save from simple-scan with .tiff extension or use GIMP etc) and run the following command (which is what Simple Scan is doing):
$ convert -adjoin file1.tiff file2.jpeg output.pdf

Could you please experiment with the images you are scanning and see if you can work out what reproduces the problem?

(also, please look in /tmp after the crash to see the temporary files that Simple Scan created. If you can reproduce please attach the files that cause the problem)

I created 2 simple files in GIMP, pg1.tiff and pg2.jpeg. Running the "convert -adjoin pg1.tiff pg2.jpeg output.pdf" causes a segmentation fault.

I've got imagemagik 7:6.5.1.0-1.1ubuntu3 installed.

I guess this probably isn't an issue with simple-scan, but none-the-less, I'd appreciate any pointers you may have on where to start my investigation with imagemagik...I have about zero experience with that package...

Thanks for your helpfulness in figuring out this issue...

I think I have the same problem with multiple pages but only (ithink) when converting form .jpg to .pdf, Scanning and saving works perfectly with single pages.

Here is the (edited as marked "...") output of "simple-scan -d" first saving multiple pages as .jpg which worked and then saving multiple pages to .pdf which didn't. I hope this is of some help.

** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_get_option_descriptor (13)
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: Option 13: name='br-y' title='Bottom-right y' type=fixed size=4 unit=mm min=0.000000, max=297.010666, quant=0 cap=soft-select,soft-detect,automatic
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: Description: Bottom-right y position of scan area.
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_control_option (13, SANE_ACTION_SET_VALUE, 297.010666) -> (SANE_STATUS_GOOD, 297.010666)
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_get_option_descriptor (14)
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: Option 14: title='Buttons' type=group size=0
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: Description: Buttons
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_get_option_descriptor (15)
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: Option 15: name='button-update' title='Update button state' type=button size=0 cap=soft-select,soft-detect,advanced
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: Description: Update button state
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_get_option_descriptor (16)
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: Option 16: name='button-1' title='Button 1' type=int size=4 cap=soft-select,soft-detect,advanced
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: Description: Button 1
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_get_option_descriptor (17)
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: Option 17: name='button-2' title='Button 2' type=int size=4 cap=soft-select,soft-detect,advanced
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: Description: Button 2
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_get_option_descriptor (18)
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_start (page=0, pass=0) -> SANE_STATUS_GOOD
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_get_parameters () -> SANE_STATUS_GOOD
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: Parameters: format=SANE_FRAME_RGB last_frame=SANE_TRUE bytes_per_line=7680 pixels_per_line=2560 lines=3508 depth=8
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: Page is 2560 pixels wide, 3508 pixels high, 8 bits per pixel
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: The request failed: The name org.gnome.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_read (7681) -> (SANE_STATUS_GOOD, 7681)
....

** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_read (61441) -> (SANE_STATUS_GOOD, 61441)
....
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_read (107521) -> (SANE_STATUS_GOOD, 69120)
.....
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_read (107521) -> (SANE_STATUS_GOOD, 7680)

....

** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_read (138241) -> (SANE_STATUS_GOOD, 69120)
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_read (138241) -> (SANE_STATUS_GOOD, 69120)
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_read (138241) -> (SANE_STATUS_GOOD, 46080)
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_read (138241) -> (SANE_STATUS_GOOD, 61440)
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_read (138241) -> (SANE_STATUS_GOOD, 38400)
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_read (138241) -> (SANE_STATUS_GOOD, 7680)
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: sane_cancel ()
** (simple-scan:9577): DEBUG: Sav...

Hi there,
same problem here. Simple-scan works and I saved already a couple of jpegs (siglepage)

Today I wanted to scan 2 pages and save them as pdf
attached is the output from simple-scan --debug >simple-scan.log

this is whats happening on my command line:
$ simple-scan --debug >simple-scan.log
WARNING: Unhandled message: interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable, path=/, member=Introspect

** (simple-scan:2998): WARNING **: ImageMagick returned error code 11, command line was: convert -adjoin /tmp/simple-scan-E81HAV.jpg /tmp/simple-scan-EOSUAV.jpg /tmp/simple-scan-AQ0FAV.pdf

** (simple-scan:2998): WARNING **: stdout:

** (simple-scan:2998): WARNING **: stderr:
Segmentation fault

same problem for me. If I save one page, no problem but if I save 2 pages or more, it crashes.

Sorry for my english

Maybe it would be helpful, I found that if you keep it in *.ps it don't crash.

Fixed the crash if ImageMagick fails. (Note this does not the save from failing if you have a broken version of ImageMagick).

What version of ImageMagick seems to be working? Is it a newer version that what I posted I'm running (7:6.5.1.0-1.1ubuntu3)? Is it perhaps a missing dependency? Or, if you're not sure, could you post the version(s) you have tested with?

Thanks,

jay

Hi Robert,
thanks for the quick fix

Was is a simple-scan bug at all? and what version of simple-scan will contain the fix?
Does it require a particular Imagemagick version?

It appears the Karmic version of ImageMagick has a bug - it works fine in 10.04 (7:6.5.7.8-1ubuntu1). If you are experiencing it please file a bug against the Karmic package (if one does not already exist).

The bug was simple-scan not correctly handling ImageMagick failing:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~robert-ancell/simple-scan/trunk/revision/374

sebastian-s, no particular version is required, just that the following command works:
$ convert -adjoin file1.tiff file2.jpeg output.pdf

(note that the use of ImageMagick is a workaround until cairo supports compressed images in PDF files, this should also speed up the saving process).

Same here.
Saving 2 pages as PDF crashes.
Saving 2 pages as jpeg works.

See complete simple-scan -d log file

Had the same problem at Ubuntu 9.10 using Simple Scan 1.0.3, upgrading imagemagick using this PPA solved my problem: https://launchpad.net/~raimar-sandner/+archive/ppa

Since yesterday I have similar problems with simple-scan. Before it allways worked fine! But yesterday, after scanning some pages it crashed while saving to PDF. The first time I get this message from shell:

http://paste.ubuntuusers.de/399258/

simple-scan shut down and the file was corrupt.

And next, I scaned one a few pages and saved it without error. But afterwards I get another message while simple-scan brokes:

http://paste.ubuntuusers.de/399259/

I think the error this time occured at the end of saving-process, because the PDF was created correct.

The current used version of simple-scan is 2.32.0 with Ubuntu 10.10

I still experience this bug with Simple Scan 3.4.3 for Linux Mint 13 (Maya) 64 bit with Gnome 3.4.2.

It appears there isn't a fixed version avalaible in standard application repositories.

please open a new ticket, i am not sure that you hit the exact same bug.
please check Bug #843361 , and if possible please check the current development version