Comment 22 for bug 1577137

I'm on Linux Mint 18 which is based on Ubuntu 16.04 and have exactly the same problem. Unfortunately the solutions provided here did not work for me. If I understand correctly, the fix should be:

# sudo systemctl start saned.socket
# sudo systemctl enable saned.socket

Still simple scan doesn't work and I never see an instance of saned being started. The scanner is found with "scanimage -L" though and it also worked fine with simple scan in earlier versions.

So something must still be missing. saned does not start for me.