[Ubuntu 10.04] eee-control can't communicate with eee-control-daemon

[theghost]

I tried to install eee-control with the help of this ppa on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid RC.
The installation went fine but after the installation and reboot, the eee-control-tray delivers the following error message:

"Fehler bei er Kommunikation mit eee-control-daemon: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.eee.Eee was not provided by any .service files"

in English:

"Error at communication with eee-control-daemon: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.eee.Eee was not provided by any .service files"

Thanks for your help.

[theghost (theghost)]

Also tried this workaround without success: http://linux.aldeby.org/eee-control-the-best-device-control-tray-icon-for-eee-pcs.html

I am using the eee pc 1005ha model.

[Iustinian T. (iustinian)]

The module loads perfectly without the acpi_osi kernel option but the daemon fails to start automatically. Works after getting started by hand. I have checked rc.d and the links are ok. Kernel is the stock lucid kernel.

Linux iustinian-eeepc 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux – eeepc 901

Maybe this will help, not sure:

eee-control-query
process 1550: arguments to dbus_message_new_method_call() were incorrect, assertion “_dbus_check_is_valid_member (method)” failed in file dbus-message.c line 1081.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
process 1550: arguments to dbus_message_set_auto_start() were incorrect, assertion “message != NULL” failed in file dbus-message.c line 2551.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.

[theghost (theghost)]

Hi lustinian T,

found a workaround which made eee-control for me working again:

"sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

and search for the line that says:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT

This line should originally look like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Add acpi_osi=Linux to the end of the line, before the closing quote. Basically after you edit it, the line should look like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"

Once you're done, save the file and run the following command:
sudo update-grub"

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/enable-fn-keys-on-your-asus-eeepc-and.html

After that, I reinstalled eee-control and it works again. :)

[yamo (stephane-gregoire)]

I confirm that this workaround fix it!
It is also knew in the French forum : http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=3447096#p3447096

[Maarten Fonville (maarten-fonville)]

I will try to embed this fix into the packages some way later this month, after my exams :)

[Maarten Fonville (maarten-fonville)]

Apparently it was not much work to fix it.
A new package is being build at the moment. This new version will automatically add the correct parameters to the grub configuration and will run an update-grub.

[Ryan T. Sammartino (ryan-sammartino)]

The latest package and doing the above work around manually does not work for me. I still get the "can't communicate" problem.

If I start the daemon in the foreground with -V, everything seems to be working just fine, except the control panel displays nothing when I select "Performance" from the drop-down menu.

This was working perfectly for me before upgrading the Lucid this evening.

[Fistandantilus (b-fistandantilus)]

"quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"
after that, module acpi_laptop loaded, but on my eeepc 1001ha wired network wont work anymore!