Peter, did you manage to find a resolution. I have a Canon LiDE 35 scanner here that I'm currently struggling with in a similar fashion. For what it's worth, it seems to work somehow from a xenial live CD. Can you verify?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to sane-backends in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1391038 Title: simple-scan does not recognize canon LiDE30 scanner Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Mint 16 *and* Mint 17 Plug in USB scanner, start simple scan. It shows a spinner but never connects and scans. Strangely, the scanner is shown properly in the preferences! Canon CanoScan N1240U/LiDE30 The scanner makes some noises but does not scan. This used to work under Mint16 until some upgrade pooched it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1391038/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
