Comment 9 for bug 485551

Actually, there is now another problem with xsane: it doesn't exit cleanly. This isn't a big problem if you only use xsane, because you can "force quit", but it will cause Gimp to hang forever on startup.

I tried to upgrade xsane to the version that's distributed with karmic, but still has the same problem.

So in the end, I just uninstalled xsane, and installed flegita instead. It also has a gimp plugin, that's in the flegita-gimp package, and this adds a "Scan.." menu entry to the File menu. It works fine standalone and also with gimp.

Happy new year.