I'm working my way through the gnome3/extra libraries and apps that I haven't built, before I add them to the book. Gnome-power-manager is giving me grief. It now uses upower, but there seems to be a problem. If I run gnome-power-stats on my desktop, it starts up ok, but produces a window showing only a processor item at the left, with a tab for Wakeups which reports 'Processor wakeups per second: cannot enable timerstats'. If I move it, the window doesn't get repainted where other windows have overlapped it. The close button works, but upowerd is left running, using not-insignificant amounts of CPU. The only result on google for that error message was in italian, and I had the impression it was just one error along someone's path and the solution, if any, was not mentioned.
This is a desktop, and all the gnome-power-manager debugging articles I can find in google seem to be about s2ram/s2disk. I don't intend to do either, but FWIW the test commands I found seem to indicate that both upowerd and polkit are working ok (both types of shutdown are reported as false for a user, at least one is reported as true for root, i.e. pkcheck --action-id org.freedesktop.upower.suspend --process $$; echo $? I suspect this is either a kernel config problem, although ACPI is enabled and I'm not even using a tickless kernel (CONFIG_HZ_250=y), or perhaps upower actually needs pm-utils at runtime, even on a desktop ? Any pointers to getting this to work would be welcome. Or do I just add a 'builds on LFS-7.0 but doesn't work' tag ? (joke) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
