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Roken

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xsane requesting password

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?

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seth

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Re: xsane requesting password

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

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Roken

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Re: xsane requesting password

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).

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seth

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Re: xsane requesting password

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)

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Re: xsane requesting password

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

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mpy

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Re: xsane requesting password

Old thread, but not SOLVED, yet...

I had the same problem that xsane was asking for the root password but works even if canceling the password prompt.

The solution for me was to disable all not necessary backends in sane, i.e. check /etc/sane.d
Specifically the package hplip installed /etc/sane.d/dll.d/hpaio wherein the hpaio backend gets enabled. This seems to trigger some scanning which in turn requires root access.

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Re: xsane requesting password

Mod note: Closing this old thread.

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