Bug#656384: gnome-session: Failed to execute child process "gnome-power-manager"

[Michael Biebl]

On 19.01.2012 17:22, Thomas Vaughan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 00:30, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 18.01.2012 23:10, tevaughan at gmail.com wrote:
>>> I have noticed in my logcheck output lines like the
>>> following:
>>>
>>> gnome-session[11345]: WARNING: Failed to start app: Unable to start
>> application: Failed to execute child process "gnome-power-manager" (No such
>> file or directory)
> 
> 
> 
> You most likely still have a autostart file in
>> ~/.config/autostart/ due to local modifications. If that file is there,
>> please delete it and make sure, gnome-session-properties doesn't like
>> gnome-power-manager anymore.
>>
> 
> Doing 'find /home/*/.config/autostart', I see that none of my users has any
> files under autostart. Yet I see the warning frequently in my logcheck
> output.
> 
> In fact, scrutinizing the output of 'find /home/*/.config -type f -print
> -exec grep gnome-power-manager "{}" \;', I don't see any occurrence of
> gnome-power-manager anywhere.
> 
> Also, 'grep -r gnome-power-manager /etc' returns only:
> 
> /etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults:/apps/gnome-power-manager/ui/icon_policy
>             never
> /etc/UPower/UPower.conf:# gnome-power-manager to not suspend on system
> startup.

> 
> Thanks for response. Please let me know if there's something else that I
> can do to track this down. I don't like having unexplained warnings show up
> in my log files.
> 

You can run gnome-session in debug mode.
Copy the attached gnome-debug.desktop file to /usr/share/xsessions/ and
the attached gnome-session-debug script to /usr/bin and make it
executable via chmod +x.
Then select "GNOME Debug" in the GDM login manager.
This will give you a verbose ~/.xsession-errors log file. There you
should see where the gnome-power-manager autostart is coming from.

Feel free to attach the log file so we can have a look.

Michael

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