#440 gscan2pdf hangs on File Save

[Blake McBride]

I am using gscan2pdf 2.13.5 on Fedora 43. Generally it works fine. However, now when I attempt to save a scanned image it just hangs on "Process 1 of 2". While I'm sure it is something simple, it is hard for me to tell what is going on because a hang gives me no information. Gscan2pdf should catch errors and display error messages rather than just hang. This is an error reporting problem. (ClaudeCode can likely fix this problem for you in 10 minutes.)

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe]

Thanks for the report. Please start gscan2pdf from the command line with the --log=log option, reproduce the error, and post the log file.

[Blake McBride]

I played with the many options long enough and got it working. I do not know what the problem was. Along the process, it hung in other places as well. In my opinion, the system should never hang. It should timeout and give a relevant error message. Although having this support page is valuable and appreciated, it should be unnecessary in at least this situation. There is no bug in gscan2pdf that I am aware of; it just lacks error messages so that the user can debug the situation in most cases. Thanks for the reply!

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe]

I've almost finished a complete rewrite. It's probably going to be called scantpaper. Needless to say, the aim to be better in lots of ways, including error handling. I've just got to nail the last couple of bugs and write a few more tests.