scanner trouble and broken pipe

[spencerf]

here is the output I get from scanimage -L I have both the sanebackends installed and the hplip driver from hp with the hpaio backend got this to work before but had to reinstall having serious trouble. thanks

[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of dll to 128.
[dll] sane_init: SANE dll backend version 1.0.11 from sane-backends 1.0.17
[dll] sane_init: reading dll.conf
[dll] add_backend: adding backend `hpaio'
[dll] sane_get_devices
[dll] load: searching backend `hpaio' in `/usr/lib/sane'
[dll] load: trying to load `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-hpaio.so.1'
[dll] load: dlopen()ing `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-hpaio.so.1'
[dll] init: initializing backend `hpaio'
[dll] init: backend `hpaio' is version 1.0.6
Broken pipe

[spencerf]

here's some more error's

Jan 15 22:37:24 tux usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
Jan 15 22:37:24 tux drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x4B11
Jan 15 22:37:31 tux hpiod: 0.9.5 accepting connections at 32783...
Jan 15 22:37:32 tux python: hpssd [ERROR] Server exited with error: Unable to bind to socket
Jan 15 22:37:55 tux scanimage: unable to open /var/run/hpssd.port: No such file or directory: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 84
Jan 15 22:37:55 tux scanimage: unable to connect hpssd socket 50002: Connection refused: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 710
Jan 15 22:40:40 tux scanimage: unable to open /var/run/hpssd.port: No such file or directory: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 84
Jan 15 22:40:40 tux scanimage: unable to connect hpssd socket 50002: Connection refused: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 710
Jan 15 22:40:45 tux scanimage: unable to open /var/run/hpssd.port: No such file or directory: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 84
Jan 15 22:40:45 tux scanimage: unable to connect hpssd socket 50002: Connection refused: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 710
Jan 15 22:40:59 tux scanimage: unable to open /var/run/hpssd.port: No such file or directory: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 84
Jan 15 22:40:59 tux scanimage: unable to connect hpssd socket 50002: Connection refused: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 710
Jan 15 22:43:28 tux scanimage: unable to open /var/run/hpssd.port: No such file or directory: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 84
Jan 15 22:43:28 tux scanimage: unable to connect hpssd socket 50002: Connection refused: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 710
Jan 15 22:45:05 tux scanimage: unable to open /var/run/hpssd.port: No such file or directory: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 84
Jan 15 22:45:05 tux scanimage: unable to connect hpssd socket 50002: Connection refused: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 710
Jan 15 22:45:26 tux scanimage: unable to open /var/run/hpssd.port: No such file or directory: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 84
Jan 15 22:45:26 tux scanimage: unable to connect hpssd socket 50002: Connection refused: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 710
Jan 15 23:02:42 tux scanimage: unable to open /var/run/hpssd.port: No such file or directory: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 84
Jan 15 23:02:42 tux scanimage: unable to connect hpssd socket 50002: Connection refused: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 710
Jan 15 23:13:05 tux hp: unable to open /var/run/hpssd.port: No such file or directory: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 84
Jan 15 23:13:05 tux hpiod: invalid message:
Jan 15 23:13:05 tux hp: unable to connect hpssd socket 50002: Connection refused: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 710
Jan 15 23:13:05 tux hpiod: unable to ParDevice::Open hp:/par/ANY?device=/dev/parport0: No such file or directory: io/hpiod/ppdevice.cpp 828
Jan 15 23:13:05 tux hpiod: unable to ParDevice::Open hp:/par/ANY?device=/dev/parport1: No such file or directory: io/hpiod/ppdevice.cpp 828
Jan 15 23:13:05 tux hpiod: unable to ParDevice::Open hp:/par/ANY?device=/dev/parport2: No such file or directory: io/hpiod/ppdevice.cpp 828
Jan 15 23:13:05 tux hpiod: unable to ParDevice::Open hp:/par/ANY?device=/dev/parport3: No such file or directory: io/hpiod/ppdevice.cpp 828
Jan 15 23:13:29 tux rc-scripts: ERROR:  wrong args. (  start] / start] )
Jan 15 23:13:29 tux rc-scripts: Usage: hplip { start|stop|restart|pause|zap }
Jan 15 23:13:30 tux rc-scripts:        hplip without arguments for full help
Jan 15 23:13:32 tux hpiod: 0.9.5 accepting connections at 32792...
Jan 15 23:13:33 tux python: hpssd [ERROR] Server exited with error: Unable to bind to socket
tux linux #

looks like something to do with the parport?

[spencerf]

well I did a reinstall of gentoo and now everything works so I don't know what fixed it but its fixed will mark as solved.