xsane requesting password

Roken · 2025-05-18 16:35:17

xsane is requesting a root password at startup, but it doesn't seem to need it (I can cancel, and it carries on quite happily).

Now, it did reveal a problem for me with the policykit agent looking ugly, so thanks for that, I fixed it.

But why is it requesting a password at all, and anyone know if I can stop it?

seth · 2025-05-18 16:59:28

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=xsane
Which of those?

Though I could imagine that it tries to run sane-find-scanner, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SANE#P … on_problem

Roken · 2025-05-18 17:20:31

I use xsane 999-7 (and I have recently installed the gimp package, but that's since this started happening). My printer/scanner is networked, so your link is of no help to that (though that may explain why it carries on if I just cancel the authentication).

seth · 2025-05-18 20:40:29

You could "strace -f xsane" to see whether it's running sane-find-scanner (if you provide the creds) - or maybe what else it's doing with them (open files etc)

WorMzy · 2025-05-18 20:44:03

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

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