(In reply to Stanislav Brabec from comment #19) > Is there anything interesting in the syslog? > > journalctl -x -e I ran the following test (as "root" immediately after system start): >>> ... >>> # setup environment for debugging export SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS=255 export SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_LOW=255 export SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_GL124=255 export SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_GL646=255 export SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_GL841=255 export SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_GL843=255 export SANE_DEBUG_GENESYS_GL847=255 export SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_USB=128 # get system log before scanning journalctl -x -e >journalctl_output_before_scan.txt # calibrate scanner and do a preview scanimage --clear-calibration --preview --mode Color 1>calibrate.pnm 2>calibrate.log # get system log after scanning journalctl -x -e >journalctl_output_after_scan.txt <<< ... <<< The file calibrate.pnm is empty. No other .pnm files were produced. Find the following files attached: journalctl_output_before_scan.txt calibrate.log journalctl_output_after_scan.txt