gnome-power-manager cannot find dbus

[André Wendt <andre.wendt@web.de>]

Hi,

I'm trying to get gnome-power-manager to work on my Debian/testing laptop.

However, when I try to start gnome-power-manager, it display the error
message "This program cannot start until you start the dbus session
service. This is usually started automatically in X or gnome startup
when you start a new session."

$ ps aux | grep dbus

gives

100 3855 0.0 0.0 2316 820 ? Ss 20:29 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system

(among others), so dbus is running alright.

# gnome-power-manager --verbose

results in the following console output:

[gpm_debug_init] gpm-debug.c:130 (21:31:15): Verbose debugging enabled
*** WARNING ***
[main] gpm-main.c:217 (21:31:15): Unable to determine the address of the
message bus
GNOME Power Manager has encountered a non-critical warning.
Consult
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gnome-power-manager for
any known issues or a possible fix.
Please file a bug with this complete message if not present

Any hints?

Thanks,
André