"/usr/bin/gnome-power-manager-inhibit test" doesn't work

[Nicolò Chieffo]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

yelo3@yelo3-laptop:~/bin$ /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager-inhibit test
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gnome-power-manager-inhibit", line 34, in <module>
    cookie = gpm.Inhibit("Command Line: " + sys.argv[1], "Long Execution")
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "Inhibit" with signature "ss" on interface "(null)" doesn't exist

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jun 4 17:34:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.27.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-7.8-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-7-generic x86_64

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 389857, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

I'm separating this out from bug #389857 since they are actually two different bugs:

1) This bug deals with an out of date example python script (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472812)
2) bug 389857 deals with a bug in Karmic where the inhibit applet isn't working at all

They are possibly related.

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Sorry for the email spam, the linked upstream bug is unrelated. I'm working on isolating it and getting upstream to look at it since it is possibly related to bug 389857

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

I've forwarded this bug upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588124

Please feel free to add any additional comments there and add yourself to the CC: list.
Thanks for all your help!

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

/usr/bin/gnome-power-manager-inhibit is an Ubuntu script.

It needs to be fixed or removed.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gnome-power-manager-team/gnome-power/trunk/annotate/head%3A/debian/patches/14_inhibit_tool.patch

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Inhibit has been moved to gnome session, away from gnome power manager. gnome-power-manager-inhibit.py is no longer included in the gnome-power-manager package [1], so this won't be fixed. Thanks for the report, it actually helped point out that the inhibit applet was broken upstream as well, and it is currently being fixed.

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gnome-power-manager-team/gnome-power/trunk/revision/171