FS#14459 - [gnome-power-manager] does not start on non-GNOME desktops

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 26 April 2009, 02:46 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 08 May 2009, 19:49 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
On non-GNOME desktops/wm (reported in XFCE, Awesome WM, OpenBox), gnome-power-manager does not launch anymore. This occurred with the latest upgrade of gnome-power-manager (2.26.0-2 -> 2.26.1-1).

> gnome-power-manager --verbose
TI:01:28:40 TH:0x1d48140 FI:egg-debug.c FN:egg_debug_init,306
- Verbose debugging 1 (on console 1)GPM_VERBOSE
TI:01:28:40 TH:0x1d48140 FI:gpm-main.c FN:main,210
- GNOME Power Manager 2.26.1
TI:01:28:40 TH:0x1d48140 FI:gpm-session.c FN:gpm_session_init,392
- DBUS error: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SessionManager': no such name

** (gnome-power-manager:6929): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Segmentation fault
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Friday, 08 May 2009, 19:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 26 April 2009, 02:59 GMT
Please start a dbus session bus. This thing is REQUIRED for 75% of the desktop applications nowadays.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 26 April 2009, 03:03 GMT
I forgot to add, dbus is running. (probably the most important thing...)

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