Re: Xfce Power Manager popup message about HAL daemon

[Gilbert Sullivan <whirlygig@comcast.net>]

On 02/19/2011 12:31 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2011 19 Feb 08:49 -0600, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> > Following routine updates on a few Debian testing systems yesterday
> > I noticed that two of the three laptops started showing an Xfce
> > Power Manager popup message only upon the first login following each
> > reboot.
> >
> > Xfce power manager
> > HAL daemon is not running
>
> I have seen that too, but so far only on my Sid box.  The other boxes
> running XFCE4 are running Squeeze.  In fact, until the latest update I
> had to restart the panel manually from a terminal.

That's very interesting. I haven't had any panel problems at all.

> > The power manager applet itself is working fine, and the HAL daemon
> > is, indeed, running. I'm guessing this is just a starting order
> > issue, but I think it's kind of odd.
> >
> > I wasn't certain whether I should give this a few days to see if it
> > gets rectified / file a bug report / wade right in and correct the
> > problem manually.
>
> Bug #612611 has been filed against xfce4-power-manager,
> xfce4-power-manager: Does not work with DBus activated HAL
>
> Message 15 in that report has a workaround:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612611#15

Thank you!

I've got some reading to do. (I hurriedly tried searching there, but 
failed to find that report. I need to pull my head out and learn to 
properly use the search functions at the bug tracker. I often screw up 
my searches there for some reason.)

I was thinking that the power manager wasn't misbehaving on these 
systems (other than the popup), but it occurs to me that I have 
virtually all of its capabilities turned off. Maybe I need to do some 
testing as well as reading.

> - Nate>>

Best regards,
Gilbert