On Tuesday, January 03, 2006 @ 1:57 AM, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Greg Wallace wrote:
On Monday, January 02, 2006 @ 6:00 AM, Joachim Schrod wrote:
I don't have kpowersave installed, so I cannot give a ready answer.
As I recall, I started to uninstall it when I first tried to clean this problem up, but I got a warning about multitudinous packages (including many YaST packages, as I recall) that would be broken if I proceeded. So, I nixed that idea.
Is this a system service (i.e., is kpowersave listed in chkconfig -l)?
Then it can be turned off with chkconfig -d, too.
That's what caused the error message to start showing up each time I logged on.
We seem to have some misunderstanding here. You might mix up two packages, let's spell out my hypothesis:
There are two packages:
1) powersave Includes kernel modules and a daemon. There are some dependencies on that package, it can not be de-installed. It can be turned off by the command chkconfig -d powersaved
2) kpowersave (with a leading k) The KDE front end. It uses powersave. As far as yast2 tells, no dependencies exist on this package. It can be safely de-installed.
I just looked it up on my 10.0 DVD, you have _not_ turned off kpowersave with chkconfig -d, that is not possible: kpowersave is `just' a KDE program and not a daemon.
As far as I understand your last email, you have turned off powersave (package 1) and now get error messages from kpowersave (package 2) because powersave is not running. So my recommendation was to try to de-install kpowersave -- when you don't use powersave, you don't need the KDE front end to it either.
I.e., call yast2 sw_single Search for power. Make sure that powersave is checked, and that kpowersave gets de-installed. Click on Check dependencies -- are there really errors? If yes, which package is named that depends on kpowersave.
therefore I just shut it down on my non-laptop systems.
And you don't get the error message dialog I get each time you log in? Did you have to change a setting somewhere to tell KDE not to put out that message?
Again: I don't have kpowersave installed at all, just powersave. That's why I'm partly guessing. (But the guess is founded on a lookup of dependencies in yast and the package content of kpowersave, and not some wild shot in the dark.) I won't ever get an error message during KDE startup -- I don't use the KDE
desktop, just some KDE programs.
Joachim
Bingo. I uninstalled kpowersave, turned disabled powersave in xinetd and that got rid of the error messages I had been getting in the log and also eliminated the kpowersave message I was getting. I didn't pick up that there were two different pieces of software at play here, even though the KDE message clearly did say kpowersave, not powersave. Thanks for straightening me out on this! Greg Wallace