[K12OSN] Error: Gnome-Power-manager has quit unexpectedly

[Dan Young]

Steve Hargadon wrote:
> On 8/12/06, Krsnendu Dasa <krsnendu108 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I also have error messages related to power management quite
>> frequently. (
>> K12LTSP5.0)
>>
>>
>> On 12/08/06, Wilson Chan < wilson at wilsonch.gotdns.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Anyone else getting this error in gnome? I tried setting my gnome power
>> > management to never/never but that didnt work. Any ideas? Thanks!
>>
>>
> We had this same problem when we installed K12LTSP 5 for a large lab at
> NECC.  Nick Wheeler fixed it for us as mentioned below:
> 
> From: *Nicholas Wheeler <dragoncow2 at gmail.com>* Mailed-By:
> *gmail.com*To: *Steve
> Hargadon <hargadon at gmail.com >*
> Date: *Jul 4, 2006 5:36 PM*
> Subject: *power management solutions - gnome-power-manager*
> 
> Firstly, I stopped acpid.
> 
> /etc/init.d/acpid stop
> 
> as acpid and gnome-power-manager could be contending.
> 
> To make this change permanent, I did:
> 
> $ nvsysv

Should be "ntsysv", or alternatively:
chkconfig acpid off

;-)

> and 'unchecked' the acpid option.

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Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
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