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Re: no pmud anymore on pismo after dist-upgrade



On Mit, 2002-03-13 at 19:11, Gerhard Reuteler wrote:

> since I did apt-get upgrade
> apt-get dist-upgrade to woody
> I have no working pmud. Reinstalling did not help.
> 
> pismo:/home/gerhard# pmud -d
> pmud[1699]: pmud [treshold = 420, margin = 15] started
> pmud[1699]: daemon stopped (/etc/power/pwrctl is insecure, cannot start)
> 
> What does this mean?

The file permissions probably allowed non-privileged users to write to
it.

> Well I removed this file, but only after 
> deinstalling anfd installing several times without success, because apt 
> -get It could not remove /etc/power because it was not empty. After that 
> the installation of pmud brought /etc/power/apm. Do I need the file 
> /etc/power/pwrctl?

Yes, it's the pmud configuration file. Remove it and apt-get --reinstall
install pmud.


PS: I recommend aptitude as a powerful and easy to use APT frontend.

-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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