Comment 16 for bug 127617

I have been experiencing this problem for about two months now, I am on Karmic 9.10, and after a routine upgrade was asked to reboot, so being an absolute novice with Ubuntu I did what I was told and rebooted the computer and ever since then have been getting the message "the configuration defaults for gnome power manager have not been installed correctly . . ." exactly as described above by others. I have spo0ken to work colleagues about this and they have suggested that as it was caused by an upgrade to just wait for another upgrade to remedy it, but it has been several months now with no visible change.

When I switch on the computer, (Acer desktop, 2Gb RAM,), often I get the usual small circular icon, then I very briefly get a message appearing, I am unable to read it as (1) the letters are very compressed and almost indecipherable (2) the message is displayed for about 1 or 2 seconds, then the display compresses to a narrow band across the middle of the screen and nothing else happens, no hard drive activity etc. If I force a reboot at this point I again get most of the above, but then I get the user name / password, but this is not the log on box I used to have. I can then log on as usual and everything appears to be "normal".

Have checked System / Preferences / Power Management, but everything appears to be correct.

Being a very new Ubuntu user, I don't want to go "fiddling" and FUBAR everything.

If someone has the time to take pity on me and point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.

Help . . .