How to close devices which have been left open?

[Dotan Cohen]

On 5/2/05, Erik P. Olsen <erik at epo.dk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 16:40 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> > Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> > > It often happens when I use my scanner that it hits a bug which leaves
> > > it in an open state and thus becomes unavailable until the system has
> > > been rebooted.
> > >
> > > Does a command exist which would take a device such as a scanner out of
> > > the open state?
> > >
> > > I am using sane-backends for avision version 1.0.15 and FC3 fully
> > > updated. The scanner is scsi attached as /dev/sg0.
> > >
> >
> > I had this happen before on really early versions of xsane. I used to
> > have to restart xsane and it would deactivate the scanner. I would then
> > close down xsane.
> 
> I am actually using scanimage but if I start xsane it ends saying no
> scanner available.
> >
> > I don't have to do this now, but it worked when I did this before. You
> > might want to file a bug report regarding this problem either upstream
> > or in fedora bugtracking.
> 
> I don't think this is appropriate. I am dealing with a bug which causes
> scanimage (or xsane for that matter) to terminate abnormally leaving the
> scanner in an open state and this bug is already reported.
> 
> I just want to be able to get my scanner available again without having
> to reboot if this at all is possible.
> >
> --
> Regards,
> Erik P. Olsen
> 
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