[X Newbies] Console Message

[Alex]

On Thursday, Feb 26, 2004, at 20:03 Canada/Eastern, Diego Terneus wrote:

> I became curious about looking at the logs that Console keeps track of.
> In the console.log file, I've been getting the following message for 
> the last 2 weeks and it just seems to have gotten into a loop:
>
> Looking for devices matching vendor ID=1193 and product ID=8717
> [...]

Sounds like the "Canon sickness". Have you installed software for a 
Canon scanner recently? It's one of the crappiest in existence, and it 
installs background processes that do exactly that. Solution -- get rid 
of it.

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