I tried to work-around thusly: sudo polkit-auth --user saned --grant org.freedesktop.hal.device- access.scanner
But no joy. The machine is headless and gnomeless, and I'd like to keep it that way. Any ideas? -- sane devices should not be managed by consolekit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236956 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs