From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner is not the orginal script that's included with the gphoto2 source. The changed libusbscanner included in FC3 assumes that the scanner gets 'plugged' in after the user has logged in, this apperently does not take into consideration scanners which are 'plugged' in before/during boot, at which point root is still the console owner. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have a scanner (supported by sane) plugged in before booting up 2. Attempt `scanimage -L` as unprivilged user 3. Attempt `scanimage -L` as root Actual Results: Step 2: provided no scanners in list of detected scanners Step 3: provided one (1) scanner in list of detected scanners Expected Results: Step 2 and Step 3 should yield identical results (unless explicitly configured not to) Additional info: An `ls -l` of the appropriate device files under /proc/bus/usb reveals permissions on file(s) don't allow access by unpriviled user. Replacing /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner with the libusbscanner script provided by sane as part of its hotplug tools, and following the steps given, solves this problem.
This sounds like it could be related to bug #121511
bug #121511 seems to be as a result of the same problem, however I can't be sure as the person did not provide more details.
Please try the current updates-testing packages and report back: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=142727 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-December/msg00311.html *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142727 ***