Mate-power-manager keeps crashing (how to keep it running / automatically restart?)











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Under Centos 7, mate-power-manager (from the EPEL repo) keeps crashing. When run manually from the command line, at the time of the crash it throws the error:



ERROR:gpm-kbd-backlight.c:342:gpm_kbd_backlight_on_dbus_signal: code should not be reached


I've found that it's an incompatibility with upower, and the workarounds suggested reduce the crashes, but don't eliminate it.



It has been fixed with version 1.18.1 However, that is not available in EPEL. I've tried building it myself, but keep getting prompted for sudo with



authentication is needed to run mate-power-backlight-helper


I really just want mate-power-manager to keep running (or automatically restart after a crash) so that I don't miss a critical battery alert.






crash mate-desktop







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  • Based on forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=259912, editing /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.mate.power.policy may avert the "authentication is needed" prompt in the built-from-source version.
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Under Centos 7, mate-power-manager (from the EPEL repo) keeps crashing. When run manually from the command line, at the time of the crash it throws the error:



ERROR:gpm-kbd-backlight.c:342:gpm_kbd_backlight_on_dbus_signal: code should not be reached


I've found that it's an incompatibility with upower, and the workarounds suggested reduce the crashes, but don't eliminate it.



It has been fixed with version 1.18.1 However, that is not available in EPEL. I've tried building it myself, but keep getting prompted for sudo with



authentication is needed to run mate-power-backlight-helper


I really just want mate-power-manager to keep running (or automatically restart after a crash) so that I don't miss a critical battery alert.






crash mate-desktop







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  • Based on forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=259912, editing /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.mate.power.policy may avert the "authentication is needed" prompt in the built-from-source version.
    – Randall
    yesterday













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Under Centos 7, mate-power-manager (from the EPEL repo) keeps crashing. When run manually from the command line, at the time of the crash it throws the error:



ERROR:gpm-kbd-backlight.c:342:gpm_kbd_backlight_on_dbus_signal: code should not be reached


I've found that it's an incompatibility with upower, and the workarounds suggested reduce the crashes, but don't eliminate it.



It has been fixed with version 1.18.1 However, that is not available in EPEL. I've tried building it myself, but keep getting prompted for sudo with



authentication is needed to run mate-power-backlight-helper


I really just want mate-power-manager to keep running (or automatically restart after a crash) so that I don't miss a critical battery alert.






crash mate-desktop







share|improve this question















Under Centos 7, mate-power-manager (from the EPEL repo) keeps crashing. When run manually from the command line, at the time of the crash it throws the error:



ERROR:gpm-kbd-backlight.c:342:gpm_kbd_backlight_on_dbus_signal: code should not be reached


I've found that it's an incompatibility with upower, and the workarounds suggested reduce the crashes, but don't eliminate it.



It has been fixed with version 1.18.1 However, that is not available in EPEL. I've tried building it myself, but keep getting prompted for sudo with



authentication is needed to run mate-power-backlight-helper


I really just want mate-power-manager to keep running (or automatically restart after a crash) so that I don't miss a critical battery alert.






crash mate-desktop




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  • Based on forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=259912, editing /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.mate.power.policy may avert the "authentication is needed" prompt in the built-from-source version.
    – Randall
    yesterday


















  • Based on forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=259912, editing /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.mate.power.policy may avert the "authentication is needed" prompt in the built-from-source version.
    – Randall
    yesterday
















Based on forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=259912, editing /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.mate.power.policy may avert the "authentication is needed" prompt in the built-from-source version.
– Randall
yesterday




Based on forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=259912, editing /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.mate.power.policy may avert the "authentication is needed" prompt in the built-from-source version.
– Randall
yesterday










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For the sake of just having the power manager running, the simplest solution seems to be to use sudo to edit the file /etc/xdg/autostart/mate-power-manager.desktop and uncomment the last line:



X-MATE-AutoRestart=true


The crashes will still occur, but at least mate-power-manager will now automatically restart when that happens.






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    For the sake of just having the power manager running, the simplest solution seems to be to use sudo to edit the file /etc/xdg/autostart/mate-power-manager.desktop and uncomment the last line:



    X-MATE-AutoRestart=true


    The crashes will still occur, but at least mate-power-manager will now automatically restart when that happens.






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      For the sake of just having the power manager running, the simplest solution seems to be to use sudo to edit the file /etc/xdg/autostart/mate-power-manager.desktop and uncomment the last line:



      X-MATE-AutoRestart=true


      The crashes will still occur, but at least mate-power-manager will now automatically restart when that happens.






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        For the sake of just having the power manager running, the simplest solution seems to be to use sudo to edit the file /etc/xdg/autostart/mate-power-manager.desktop and uncomment the last line:



        X-MATE-AutoRestart=true


        The crashes will still occur, but at least mate-power-manager will now automatically restart when that happens.






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        For the sake of just having the power manager running, the simplest solution seems to be to use sudo to edit the file /etc/xdg/autostart/mate-power-manager.desktop and uncomment the last line:



        X-MATE-AutoRestart=true


        The crashes will still occur, but at least mate-power-manager will now automatically restart when that happens.







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