8.10 Intrepid: scanner group now hald or consolekit?

[jeffk]

On Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, I can no longer access the scanner as a normal user, but can with sudo:

My user is in the scanner group:
$ grep scan /etc/group
scanner:x:105:hplip,myuser,(...)

$ SANE_DEBUG_EPJITSU=15 scanimage -L 2>fi60.log

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
$ cat fi60.log
[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of epjitsu to 15.
[epjitsu] sane_init: start
[epjitsu] sane_init: epjitsu backend 1.0.10, from sane-backends 1.0.19
[epjitsu] sane_init: reading config file epjitsu.conf
[epjitsu] sane_init: firmware '/usr/share/sane/epjitsu/60f_0A00.nal'
[epjitsu] sane_init: looking for 'usb 0x04c5 0x10c7'
[epjitsu] attach_one: start 'libusb:005:004'
[epjitsu] attach_one: init struct
[epjitsu] attach_one: connect fd
[epjitsu] connect_fd: start
[epjitsu] connect_fd: opening USB device
[epjitsu] connect_fd: could not open device: 11
[epjitsu] connect_fd: finish
[epjitsu] sane_close: start
[epjitsu] teardown_buffers: start
[epjitsu] teardown_buffers: finish
[epjitsu] sane_close: finish
[epjitsu] sane_init: firmware '/usr/share/sane/epjitsu/300_0A00.nal'
[epjitsu] sane_init: looking for 'usb 0x04c5 0x1156'
[epjitsu] sane_init: found 0 scanner(s)
[epjitsu] sane_init: finish
[epjitsu] sane_get_devices: start
[epjitsu] sane_get_devices: finish
[epjitsu] sane_exit: start
[epjitsu] sane_exit: finish
But sudo has access:
$ SANE_DEBUG_EPJITSU=15 sudo scanimage -L 2>fi60.log
device `epjitsu:libusb:005:004' is a FUJITSU fi-60F 0A06 scanner
What am I supposed to do with hald and consolekit? Am I supposed to join group haldaemon?