Michael Biebl wrote:
> Package: kdebase-workspace-bin
> Version: 4:4.2.2-2
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/lib/kde4/kded_powerdevil.so
>
> Hi,
>
> when I try to configure the power management settings within
> systemsettings, I get the following error message:
>
> The configuration module can not be started, since there seems to be a
> problem with PowerDevil Daemon. Read below for more details
> Another power manager has been detected...
>
> No other power manager is running though (kpowersave/powersaved are not
> installed fwiw, gnome-power-manager is not running
>
> The process claiming org.freedesktop.PowerManagement on the session bus
> resp. org.freedesktop.Policy.Power is in both cases "kded4".
>
More info, after looking a bit at the code:
powerdevil itself registers the org.freedesktop.Policy.Power dbus interface
in daemon/PowerDevilDaemon.cpp:161
and then has a check in
powerdevil/kcmodule/PowerDevilKCM.cpp:85
if (conn.interface()->isServiceRegistered("org.freedesktop.PowerManagement") ||
conn.interface()->isServiceRegistered("org.freedesktop.Policy.Power")) {
...
which subsequently fails.
Registering the org.freedesktop.Policy.Power interface only works, if a relevant
dbus config file is installed. PowerDevil does not install such a dbus config
file, bug powersaved does (/etc/dbus-1/system.d/powersave.conf).
So, indeed, after purging powersave, the kcm module successfully starts.
This of course is not the idea behind org.freedesktop.Policy.Power:
This interface was introduced to allow co-existence of powersaved (a system wide
power management daemon) with a user session power management daemon (like
gnome-power-manager, kpowersave or powerdevil).
powersaved will execute any actions if the org.freedesktop.Policy.Power
interface is grabbed by a process other then powersaved, i.e. a user is logged
into a graphical session.
My suggestion is to fix powerdevil/kcmodule/PowerDevilKCM.cpp:85 and not only
check if conn.interface()->isServiceRegistered("org.freedesktop.Policy.Power"),
but also, if the registered process does not belong to the user session.
Cheers,
Michael
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