On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:23:29 -0700 (PDT)
"Peter C. Wallace" <pcw@mesanet.com> wrote:

> SANE and xscanimage worked fine before but no longer work.
> Unfortunately I did two things between the time that the scanner
> worked and the time it quit. I upgraded from 1.6 to 1.6.1 and
> installed Mozilla 1.4 (which caused a cascade of package rebuilding)
[snip]
> but scanimage fails with:
> 
> [epson] Error opening the devicescanimage: open of device
> epson:/dev/uk0 failed: Invalid argument

I just had this happen when I upgraded the sane-backends package. It
seems to be a problem in the package itself. 
Restoring an older version (1.0.9) made it work again here (with my usb
scanner)

HTH
-- 
Douglas