GNOME Power Manager not installed correctly

[alienslag]

Hi, I am new to linux, and have just installed fedora 11 onto my computer about a week ago. Recently when I booted up my computer I get an error at the login screen.


"Install problem!
The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator."

When I try to login in, nothing happens. I cant seem to get past the login screen.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

[wvn]

welcome to fedora alienslag ,
I am sure that if you wait long enough, one of the senior members will provide you with a cli solution to your problem. That said, i would recommend a fresh install from the complete dvd, since you did not customize yet your install.

It is up to you

UPDATE

excuse my ignorance, i just saw that recently this appeared. Wait then.

[timliim]

Alienslag,

Welcome to Fedora!

I did not see such errors myself, but since it complained the
"configuration defaults ...", you can try to remove and reinstall the
offending package.

1. At login prompt, press Ctrl-Alt-F2, this brings you to tty2, a text window. (You can try Ctrl-Alt-F1 to satisify your curiosity).

2. Login as root user.

yum remove gnome-power-manager
yum install gnome-power-manager
reboot

This seems to be low risk operation; I tried it on my system and saw no adverse effect.

Please let me know how it goes for you.

Cheers,
Tim Taiwanese Liim

[oldgold]

This may be a candidate for the most misleading error message of all time!

You will get this message if gconf-sanity-check-2 tries to write a test file into /tmp and can't read it back. It can be caused if you erase the /tmp directory and allow the system to create a new one automatically. It does so with the permissions set to read and execute only, so the test file cannot be written.

Change the permissions of /tmp to 777 and it will fix it.


The command line is chmod 777 /tmp

[timliim]

Oldgold,

Thanks for the tip! Very interesting to learn. Agree it's good
candidate for the most misleading category.

Re: changing the permission of /tmp/:
How about

chmod a+rwxt /tmp

Nowadays /tmp/ has a "sticky bit" with it:

[timliim@taiwan ~]$ ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt. 26 root root 4096 2009-09-01 23:35 /tmp

The sticky bit on a directory (eg. /tmp/) "prevents unprivileged
users from removing or renaming a file in the directory unless
they own the file or the directory" (from "man chmod"), which is
exactly what /tmp/ needs.

Thanks!
Tim Taiwanese Liim

[oldgold]

Good point timlim. Thanks.

[jepp_justin]

Alienslag,

Welcome to Fedora!

I did not see such errors myself, but since it complained the
"configuration defaults ...", you can try to remove and reinstall the
offending package.

1. At login prompt, press Ctrl-Alt-F2, this brings you to tty2, a text window. (You can try Ctrl-Alt-F1 to satisify your curiosity).

2. Login as root user.

yum remove gnome-power-manager
yum install gnome-power-manager
reboot

This seems to be low risk operation; I tried it on my system and saw no adverse effect.

Please let me know how it goes for you.

Cheers,
Tim Taiwanese Liim

hi there,

im trying to follow your instructions, but i get an error msg "rpmdb open failed"
after typing yum remove gnome-power-manager in terminal as root..

any idea what went wrong?

thanks in advance..

justin

[timliim]

Justin,

I have not see this error "rpmdb open failed" myself, but this thread
might be related

[1] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...=135473&page=2

I got this error msg myself back in 2007:

rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery

and this method recovered the db for me:

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
rpm --rebuilddb

The last posting in [1] from Mark, dated 2006, stated that the last
step (rpm --rebuilddb) should be replaced by reboot. If reboot does
not resolve the issue, then try "rpm --rebuilddb".

Are you fixing the issue as posted by alienslag (2009-07-17)? If so
you should follow oldold's post (2009-08-29).

Cheers,
Tim Taiwanese Liim

[Xuejing]

Hi, I am new to linux, and have just installed fedora 11 onto my computer about a week ago. Recently when I booted up my computer I get an error at the login screen.


"Install problem!
The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator."

When I try to login in, nothing happens. I cant seem to get past the login screen.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Hello,alienslag,
Do you resolve this porblem? I have the same problem, can you give me a hand?
Thanks.
Xuejing

[lugligino]

Hey did you solve?
start a linux live cd and try the command df in console.
If 100% appears you have a full disk problem.

[RoboCat]

I convinced myself that this problem was caused during the make of the v4l-db (for a RCA to USB controller driver). I dont think it was the driver itself but rather that I had run out of memory during the make (I only have 8GB on my FDM)

I fixed the problem by removing the directory and clearing up as much space as possible.

In particular during the GUI login <CTRL> <ALT> <F2> to get the text mode. I then found the directory of the make file and deleted it:

sudo rm -r DIRECTORY

upon reboot I was able to get back into the GUI: <alt F7>

(3 hours of horrible troubleshooting at the worst possible time!!)

[StuG_III]

Hi, I am new to linux, and have just installed fedora 11 onto my computer about a week ago. Recently when I booted up my computer I get an error at the login screen.


"Install problem!
The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator."

When I try to login in, nothing happens. I cant seem to get past the login screen.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

I've got the same problem today.
After some troubleshooting I figured out my root partition is 100% full. I just removed some files to solve the problem.