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After upgrading vom Mageia 1 to Mageia 2 xsane crashed with the following error in /var/log/messages - even after removing the previous settings by deleting .sane :

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Jun  3 13:44:40 linha kernel: [12869.496443] xsane[9906] general protection ip:7f194a992cd5 sp:7ffff6dd1ed0 error:0 in libhpip.so.

it also didn't show a resolution in the scanning options. Root cause was that the hplip requires a plugin that could not be loaded via the gui (at least as an ordinary user). The following procedure fixed it:

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[root@linha log]# hp-plugin

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1

Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

/Checking for network connection...
Downloading configuration file from: http://hplip.sf.net/plugin.conf
Checking for network connection...
Downloading plug-in from: http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/hplip-3.12.2-plugin.run
Receiving digital keys: /usr/bin/gpg --no-permission-warning --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xA59047B9
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing HPLIP 3.12.2 Plugin Self Extracting Archive.........................................

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2)
Plugin Installer ver. 3.0

Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Plug-in version: 3.12.2
Installed HPLIP version: 3.12.2
Number of files to install: 36


Done.
 Plug-in installation successful.

Done.


Now the resolution is displayed in xsane and scanning works

Mageia 2, x86_64

The hp-plugin issue is already reported as https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5395