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xfce4-power-manager package

  1. Bug #507097
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 507097

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Lucid Xubuntu] power manager fails to start because HAL daemon is not running

hal is run through D-Bus activation now, instead of an init/upstart script. This is because booting/X/GNOME does not need hal any more these days.

If an app wants to connect to hal, it should get auto-spawned. This works fine for gnome-power-manager and pitivi at least. So perhaps x-p-m does something more cautious, like testing if hal is running before connecting to it (this doesn't work -- it just needs to go ahead connecting).

Does someone have a debug output of x-p-m? How is that done?