Xfce Power Manager not running

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I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with Xfce DE.

The power manager isnt running and wont run when I hit the run button. Here's the message it gives me:

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Update:

I see it's running in the System Monitor but I cant pull its window up. It's still giving the above message about it not running.

[Toz]

What does the following return:

ps -ef | grep power-manager | grep -v grep

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nutin     1681  1841  0 13:44 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager
nutin     2103  1841  0 Jul08 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 2b36a3f27-61c2-4e94-ac36-c8bb64dd04b0
nutin     2273  1841  0 Jul08 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager

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I just did an "end process" on all the power managers that were running but it didnt help (3 were running). Now only 1 is running:

nutin     2905  1841  0 15:41 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager

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nutin     1681  1841  0 13:44 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager
nutin     2103  1841  0 Jul08 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager --restart --sm-client-id 2b36a3f27-61c2-4e94-ac36-c8bb64dd04b0
nutin     2273  1841  0 Jul08 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager

Yeah, not good. I wonder how 3 instances got to run at the same time? I didn't think that was possible.

I just did an "end process" on all the power managers that were running but it didnt help (3 were running). Now only 1 is running:

nutin     2905  1841  0 15:41 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager

Try clearing out your sessions cache from outside of Xfce. First log out then go to the first tty (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and log in to the text console there. Once logged in, run:

cd .cache
rm -rf sessions

...then return to the gui (Ctrl+Alt+F7) and log back in again and check to see if its any better. Also check to see how many instance of xfce4-power-manager are running.

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Done.

It's doing the same thing except now there's 2 running:

nutin     2905     1  0 15:41 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager
nutin     3881  3563  0 17:03 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager

[Toz]

Do you have it set to run in your autostartup as well (Settings Manager >> Session and Startup >> Application autostart)?

Or alternatively, do you have an xfce4-power-manager entry in ~/.config/autostart?

Try as I may, I cannot get 2 instances to run simultaneously.

nutin     2905     1  0 15:41 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager
nutin     3881  3563  0 17:03 ?        00:00:00 xfce4-power-manager

Who is the parent of your second instance? In the above results, the first power-manager's PID is 2905 and its parent 1 (init). In the second instance (PID 3881) its parent is 3563. What process is 3563? Make sure you re-run the command to get the proper PIDs to check.

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Do you have it set to run in your autostartup as well (Settings Manager >> Session and Startup >> Application autostart)?

Or alternatively, do you have an xfce4-power-manager entry in ~/.config/autostart?

Try as I may, I cannot get 2 instances to run simultaneously.


Who is the parent of your second instance? In the above results, the first power-manager's PID is 2905 and its parent 1 (init). In the second instance (PID 3881) its parent is 3563. What process is 3563? Make sure you re-run the command to get the proper PIDs to check.

Do you have it set to run in your autostartup as well (Settings Manager >> Session and Startup >> Application autostart)?
Yes. Should it??

Or alternatively, do you have an xfce4-power-manager entry in ~/.config/autostart?
No.

3563 shows up as init.

Re-run the command? Re-run cd .cache, rm -rf sessions??

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Do you have it set to run in your autostartup as well (Settings Manager >> Session and Startup >> Application autostart)?
Yes. Should it??

No. It should start automatically by default. No need to add to autostart. If it doesn't start up automatically, clearing the sessions cache like we did earlier will reset it to autostart.

Try removing it from your autostart sessions, then log out and clear the sessions again as we did earlier. Log back in and check the power manager again.