gnome-power-manager quits unexpectedly

[Jim Cornette]

S Baig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed Fedora5 Test2 and when I log into Gnome, I immediately 
> get a message box saying "The Application "gnome-power-manager" has quit 
> unexpectedly".  Then I open a terminal and try running 
> 'gnome-power-manager' from the command prompt, I get the same message 
> box, but also the following text is printed on the terminal:
> 
> ** (gnome-power-manager:6362): WARNING **: main: Unable to determine the 
> address of the message bus
> 
> ** ERROR **: This program cannot start until you start the dbus session 
> daemon
> This is usually started in X or gnome startup (depending on distro)
> You can launch the session dbus-daemon manually with this command:
> eval `dbus-launch --auto-syntax`
> 
> 
> I cannot find 'dbus-launch' anywhere in my path, but I verified using 
> 'system-config-services' that the messagebus service is running.  Has 
> anyone else had this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> -shez-
> 

The problem is on the FC5T2 disc(s) - If you apply updates, it shoud go 
away and work normally.

Yes, I had the problem. Check the archives for the fedora-test list. 
There were many discussions related to gnome-power-manager in the later 
days of FC5T1 and the release of FC5T2.

Jim

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