Some more info: I see that just before it segfaults xsane writes the following files in /tmp/
-rw------- 1 toby toby 0 2006-09-07 10:48 xsane-preview-level-0-epson:_dev_sg0.ppm-1000-SzgqC9 -rw------- 1 toby toby 0 2006-09-07 10:48 xsane-preview-level-1-epson:_dev_sg0.ppm-1000-aSKFiM -rw------- 1 toby toby 0 2006-09-07 10:48 xsane-preview-level-2-epson:_dev_sg0.ppm-1000-0atVYo I hope this helps to pin point what's happening. Toby ** Bug 51001 has been marked a duplicate of this bug -- SEGV on startup https://launchpad.net/bugs/37968 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs