sane fails to open HP Scanjet 8200

[DAP]

With both xsane and simple scan I am unable to scan using my HP Scanjet 8200. This was working in 10.10, but broke with the upgrade to 11.04.
xsane reports "Failed to open device`avision:libusb:002:006': Operation not supported"

I've probably picked the wrong package, there are so many packages with "sane" in them, and their descriptions are insufficient to distinguish them.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: sane (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 28 20:22:34 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: sane-frontends
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[DAP (akadap)]

This has failed on both an upgrade from 10.10 and a clean install of 11.04. Both on a system where the scanner was working on 10.10

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ivan Simonov (ivan-simonov)]

Ubuntu 10.10 (upgraded) is OK
Ubuntu 11.10 (clean) HP Scanjet 8200 failed

[Şahin Alp Taşkaya (sahin)]

I have the same problem in Lubuntu 11.10.

[Şahin Alp Taşkaya (sahin)]

In Ubuntu 12.04 the problem persists...

[Lapse of Reason (lapseofreason0)]

According to http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scanning.sane.devel/20836 this has been fixed in sane. Thus updating sane-backends to version 1.0.23 should fix the problem.

[DAP (akadap)]

Do you know the actual name of the package? (sane-backends does not appear to be a package under Ubuntu)
Also, is there a PPA for the 1.0.23 package?

[Lapse of Reason (lapseofreason0)]

The source package is named sane-backends in Ubuntu, it contains libsane and sane-utils (and the related development and debugging packages).

I am not aware of any PPAs, 1.0.23 is not even in Debian yet.

Btw, I tested the scanner with the current stable version of Debian (squeeze), which comes with sane-backends 1.0.21, and it worked without any problems.

[Bedlore (brendan-dbinformatics)]

I'm running Mint using libsane-common 1.0.23-0ubuntu1 and can confirm it can not find my HP Scanjet 8200 also.

[DAP (akadap)]

Upgraded to 13.04. This is still a problem.

[Robert McKee (bertmanphx)]

Same problem here on 13.04....

[penalvch (penalvch)]

DAP, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases your release is EOL.

If you have an issue in a supported release (ex. 16.04) please file a new report, and feel free to subscribe me to it.