Hardy Install Problem - GNOME Power Manager not installed correctly

**sa125** · May 7th, 2008

I've installed the final release of Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS) a couple of days after it came out, and soon after I started getting system pop-ups that read:

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

Also, when I try to reboot my system, it takes over a minute from the time I press the shutdown menu button until the actual menu appears (the one showing the shutdown options - restart, logoff, shutdown, switch user, etc.). I was wondering if that's related and if there's anything I could do to speed things up.

Thanks!

**sa125** · May 9th, 2008

Nobody?... I can't be the only one who's been having this problem.

**melvis02** · May 12th, 2008

Hey, I just ran into the same issue last night. I can't think of anything in particular that would have triggered this happening either. I reinstalled gnome-power-manager and am not getting that error any more, but everything looks horrid and is running terribly. Fonts are giant and everything looks like gtk1/windows95 awful grey.

Compiz is still up and running, and most everything seems to work but I'm not too thrilled with the GTK1 look.. I'm starting to wonder if it's something in gConf or a config directory in my home directory got wiped.

**melvis02** · May 13th, 2008

So I needed my laptop for work tomorrow and didn't feel like doing real troubleshooting, so I took a hammer to it... I installed xbuntu-desktop just so I would have a fallback DE, then completely removed (purged) gconf and gconf-common. This whacked just about everything gnome. I then reinstalled ubuntu-desktop, Ctrl-Alt-Backspaced then restarted GDM and all was well. Granted you're going to lose a lot of settings probably, but I wasn't so concerned with that.

Please post if you figure out the real cause and how to fix it properly, but this at least gives you the opportunity to clean things up if you're impatient like me.

**Oldsoldier2003** · May 13th, 2008

Originally Posted by melvis02

So I needed my laptop for work tomorrow and didn't feel like doing real troubleshooting, so I took a hammer to it... I installed xbuntu-desktop just so I would have a fallback DE, then completely removed (purged) gconf and gconf-common. This whacked just about everything gnome. I then reinstalled ubuntu-desktop, Ctrl-Alt-Backspaced then restarted GDM and all was well. Granted you're going to lose a lot of settings probably, but I wasn't so concerned with that.

Please post if you figure out the real cause and how to fix it properly, but this at least gives you the opportunity to clean things up if you're impatient like me.

reinstalling gnome-power-manager and restarting fixed the problem for me earlier when i was building a minimal install for a chroot...