Bug#397508: [rdorsch@web.de: Fwd: Re: [Pkg-kde-extras] Powermanager OSD comes up again and again]

[Rainer Dorsch]

Am Montag, 15. Januar 2007 17:20 schrieb Luka Renko:
> On Monday 15. January 2007 23:17, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > DBus is returning bogus output from HAL it seems. While I cannot see the
> > real reason for that (some problem with brightness setting, it seems),
> > attached patch should work around this specific issue. Note that this
> > might make other, similar problems surface, but we can work through them.
> >
> > Can you try the attached patch, see if that helps, and post console
> > output if you still have problems?
>
> Yep, this should help, however I have also proposed simple fix for
> on_battery detection which should make it more robust for such failures.
> See
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/77091
> Root cause is probably dbus security - we are discussing this on IRC with
> Rainer...
>

Just wanted to mention for the Debian BTS, that this patch circumvents the 
problem. It does not resolve the root cause of the problem (the permission 
problem reported when powermanager is started on the command line), but makes 
the annoying box going away.

Thanks,
Rainer

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