Power Manager crash nukes HAL, DBUS

["Colin Brace" <cb lim nl>]

Hi all,

A couple of times this weekend I've gotten a Gnome crash report appearing onscreen indicating that Power Manager has crashed. As a result, Gnome, among other things I suppose, no longer automounts removable media. I've tried restarting message bus and haldaemon with the service command to no avail. I know a reboot will fix things, but I'd rather try to figure out what is going wrong and fix it -- and file a bug report if I can.

I don't see any script in /etc/init.d or a likey binary. Anyone know how to restart it? Also, this is a desktop box. Do I need Power Manager or is to primarily to save energy on laptops? 

Thanks.

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  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam