[wellylug] Canon Scanner on Slackware 10.1, invalid group problem

[Sebastian]

tena koutou katoa...

* andrej at paradise.net.nz [2006-07-03 16:36 +1200]:
> Quoting Benjamin Cooney <benjamin.cooney at gmail.com>:
> 
> > I have a USB Canon Scanner I would like to get working. I plugged in the
> > cables and booted my computer. The hardware decetion, hotplug rc script
> > seems to have found it but it echos the error:
> 
> >  chown root:scanner invalid group
> That's an odd error to give;  Slackware by default does have the 
> scanner group (since it's being shipped with sane & xsane).
> Did you manually remove the group?

you can (re-)create the group with

/usr/bin/groupadd scanner

neither do i know which id that group should have in Slackware (is
that your distro, Benjamin?), nor if that is really important.


> > can anyone help me get this setup?
> Not without more input :)

yes, what happens after you have got that group?
file error: read not ready.


good luck,
 Sebastian

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