KDE Power Manager: "battery has been removed"

[rkent]

From time to time, I will be using my Lenovo T60 and the KDE power manager will flash a "battery has been removed" message, and the power manager icon in the doc indicates that it has no battery. The laptop continues to work, even when unplugged (i.e., the batter is still physically there and it works).

Two questions: 1) how can I restart not only the KDE power manager applet, but whatever server process it communicates with, and 2) how can I fix this long term?

Hardware: Lenovo T60, everything standard.

Software: Hardy 8.04.1, KDE 3.5.9.


Thanks!

[sayakb]

What power manager do you have? Try kpowersave and see if you get the error.

[rkent]

Thanks for the suggestion, but it did not help; I still have the same problem.

This most recent time it came up, actually, both the power manager AND the wireless network card crashed. I think the underlying service is crashing - HAL? Or whatever it is they have in common.