HP 4P scanner use

[alan duval]

I followed noOp's advice and purged xsane' renaming the files he 
mentioned. Sane is not installed. Then reinstalled xsane and can use it 
from my desktop but the error messages "Failed to create file: 
Permission denied" still occur 3 times when exiting xsane.

Then followed Brian's advice and ran strace when closing xsane and got 
the following Permission denied lines:

mkdir("/home/alan/.sane", 0777) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)

mkdir("/home/alan/.sane/xsane", 0777) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

mkdir("/home/alan/.sane/xsane/batch-lists/", 0777) = -1 EACCES 
(Permission denied)

open("/home/alan/.sane/xsane/batch-lists/default.xbl", O_RDONLY) = -1 
EACCES (Permission denied)


mkdir("/home/alan/.sane", 0777) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)

mkdir("/home/alan/.sane/xsane", 0777) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

open("/home/alan/.sane/xsane/xsane.rc", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0600) 
= -1 EACCES (Permission denied)


mkdir("/home/alan/.sane", 0777) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)

mkdir("/home/alan/.sane/xsane", 0777) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

open("/home/alan/.sane/xsane/xsane.mdf", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0600) 
= -1 EACCES (Permission denied)


mkdir("/home/alan/.sane", 0777) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)

mkdir("/home/alan/.sane/xsane", 0777) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

open("/home/alan/.sane/xsane/Hewlett-Packard:C1130A.drc", 
O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

I'm not sure how to proceed now.

Alan