Comment 13 for bug 973778

This also is occurring for me. Running from a terminal I get this:

user@host:~$ ps ax | grep power
 1469 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/lib/upower/upowerd
 1898 ? Ss 0:00 xfce4-power-manager
 2189 ? Sl 0:00 xfce4-power-manager-settings --socket-id=54526262
 2297 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto power
user@host:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for user:
root@host:~# kill 1898
root@host:~# kill 2189
root@host:~# xfce4-power-manager --no-daemon

(xfce4-power-manager:2355): GLib-WARNING **: (/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./glib/gerror.c:390):g_error_new_valist: runtime check failed: (domain != 0)

(xfce4-power-manager:2355): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: Unable to connect to session managet : Failed to connect to the session manager: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined

(xfce4-power-manager:2355): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: could not map keysym 1008ffa8 to keycode

>> after this, the power manager panel applet shows up. When trying to access the power manager settings, I *cannot* get to the controls via Settings Manager > Power Manager. But I *can* get to the application settings via right-click on the applet > preferences. Probably because the new instance was not initiated with the session login.

small section of syslog; not sure if it's relevant:
Aug 13 01:41:51 hostname dbus[809]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Accounts' (using servicehelper)
Aug 13 01:41:51 hostname dbus[809]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Accounts'
Aug 13 01:41:51 hostname accounts-daemon[1339]: started daemon version 0.6.15
Aug 13 01:41:51 hostname dbus[809]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit' (using servicehelper)
Aug 13 01:41:51 hostname dbus[809]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit'
Aug 13 01:41:53 hostname dbus[809]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.UPower' (using servicehelper)
Aug 13 01:41:53 hostname dbus[809]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.UPower'
Aug 13 01:41:56 hostname dbus[809]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1' (using servicehelper)