Power Manger Error: GConf schema

[Jim Rockford]

This has been posted to the forums by others before, without reply, and google is little help on this issue. When I log in I always get the following error message from the Gnome power manager:

"GConf schema installer error,
battery_low_percentage cannot be zero"

Potential problems with the power manager make me awfully nervous. I cannot find any trace of a "battery_low_percentage" schema in my system configuration editor. Anyone know how to deal with this?

My system:
FC6 (64 bit) desktop
Intel Core 2 Duo
Asus P5N32-E SLI motherboard

[Seve]

Hello:
Cannot you just disable this in the Sessions /Gnome Power menu area / sorry I don't use Gnome so I may have the menu area off?
Or if not there in gconf-editor under /apps/gnome-power-manger/battery_percentage_low/ and change the value to something > 0

Seve

[Jim Rockford]

Originally Posted by Seve

Hello:
Cannot you just disable this in the Sessions /Gnome Power menu area / sorry I don't use Gnome so I may have the menu area off?
Or if not there in gconf-editor under /apps/gnome-power-manger/battery_percentage_low/ and change the value to something > 0

Seve

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I don't see any such setting called "battery_percentage_low" and even if I could find such a "schema" (whatever that is), whenever I click these things I'm told by Gnome that I cannot edit them. When I try
to do so I get a message "Currently pairs and schemas can't be edited. This will be changed in a later version." So, I really have no idea how to tackle this. I cannot find the "schema" being complained about, and I see no way to edit the schema even if I could find it.

Jim

[Seve]

Hello:
As I mentioned before I am not using Gnome. However I have in the past and since you do not have a batter? Correct?
You should check the gnome-power-manager settings and or perhaps the settings in sessions or your panel applets.
The app gconf-editor which I referred to is attached below:
If you cannot solve your problem here you may want to have a scan through here : http://gnomesupport.org/forums/

Seve

[Jim Rockford]

Originally Posted by Seve

Hello:
As I mentioned before I am not using Gnome. However I have in the past and since you do not have a batter? Correct?
You should check the gnome-power-manager settings and or perhaps the settings in sessions or your panel applets.
The app gconf-editor which I referred to is attached below:
If you cannot solve your problem here you may want to have a scan through here : http://gnomesupport.org/forums/

Seve

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Thanks Seve. Yes, I am NOT running a laptop, but a desktop, so this battery issue is really an annoying red herring. Interestingly, when I opened the Gnome configuration editor I did not find the full list of applications under the gnome-power-manager that you had (specifically, the "battery_percentage_low" entry, among many others). I had no ability to fix things this way.

However, I managed to fix the problem using only mildly desperate measures. First, I noticed a kernel update (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6) and began by installing that. I then removed the package "gnome-power-manager" and then immediately reinstalled it. The problem then magically disappeared after a reboot. I can't say whether the kernel update had anything to do with it (I think not), but the trick seems to be a reinstall of the power manager. It worked for me anyway (on the 64bit FC6).

Jim