Thanks very much for the debugging hint. I've restarted my laptop since I first
encountered this and it seems fine now.
I've set this bug to Invalid. If I come across the situation again I will
re-open it with the output you requested.
** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Status:
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. May you try to follow these steps:
* run from the command line: /usr/bin/gnome-inhibit-applet
* go to add to panel and add the inhibit applet
the inhibit applet will throw some info in the command line, please