[karmic] devicekit-power broken by 008-1 to 008-1ubuntu1 update
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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devicekit-power (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Critical
|
Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: devicekit-power
After the update in karmic of devicekit-power from 008-1 to 008-1ubuntu1, the devkit-power daemon does not seem to get started. The symptoms are that gnome-power-manager no longer knows I have a battery (it just shows the "plug" icon no matter what my laptop's state is, rather than correctly showing the battery charge and AC adapter state as before). Also, from the command line, I get:
$ devkit-power
(devkit-
and
$ ps ax|grep -e 'dev.*pow'
6241 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep -e dev.*pow
(Ie no daemon gets activated by dbus).
AFAICT, the only change from 008-1 to 008-1ubuntu1 was the addition of the pm-powersave.patch, which (aside from the fact that the command returned from g_strdup_printf() is not freed in dkp_daemon_
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 26 22:55:45 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: devicekit-power 008-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: devicekit-power
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-1-generic x86_64
I can confirm this bug, as well as the fact that reverting to 008-1 fixes the problem.