Comment 2 for bug 660738

sudo apt-get install xsane sane-utils libsane
did nothing as everything is already at the latest versions.

I did a sudo apt-get --purge remove xsane sane-utils and installed them again.
I did not the same for libsane as it had far to many dependencies to be simply removed.

I then started xsane and tried to scan. The scanner started and seemed to scan but before an image is retrieved and displayed by xsane I get a dialog stating: "Error during read: Error during device I/O."

hp-scan output has not changed.