[sane-devel] plustek backend failing to open device under non-root

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Yury Tarasievich writes:

> [snip]
> The point is the software actually somehow fails 
> to open a lock file in /var/lock/sane, which 
> must involve some subtlety in my system. Like, 
> why does the device node get its group owner set 
> to 'lp'?

Re the `lp` group assignment, this may be caused by an ordering issue in
the udev rules files on your system.  I've recently come across somthing
similar where a third party's udev rules ended up *before* udev's default
rules.  The latter clobbered settings from the former.

If the libsane.rules file sorts before your system's udev-default rules,
try moving it after that file.  See the udev manual page for info on how
the files are sorted and where they can be found.

Hope this helps,
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