Description of problem: gnome-power-manager displays an icon in the notification area which, after hovering the cursor over it, says: "Session active, not inhibited, screen idle. If you can see this text, your display server is broken and you should notify your distributor. Please see http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/08/17/gnome-power-manager-and-blanking-removal-of-bodges/ for more information." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.7.0-1.fc12 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. wait until the idle timeout expires
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Could we get an output of the command rpm -qa \*power\* xorg-x11\*server\* (these are real backslashes and asterisks, not fancy mean of bolding text or anything) We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Here is the requested information: DeviceKit-power-011-0.1.20090914git.fc12.x86_64 gnome-power-manager-2.28.0-1.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.0-1.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-11.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.0-1.fc12.x86_64
Richard, any thoughts on this?
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Just seen it with: gnome-power-manager-2.28.1-5.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.1-7.fc12.x86_64
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Wasn't this an X server issue?
This happened to me with: gnome-power-manager-2.28.2-2.fc12.i686 DeviceKit-power-014-1.fc12.i686 xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.4-6.fc12.i686 xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-13.fc12.i686 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.4-6.fc12.i686 The display went blank for no apparent reason while I was reading a web page, and when I hit the keyboard or mouse (I don't remember which) I got the icon and the reported error message.
Unexpected blanking and message from g-p-m continues sporadically with: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.4.902-1.fc12.x86_64 gnome-power-manager-2.28.3-1.fc12.x86_64 DeviceKit-power-014-1.fc12.x86_64 (in my case, seen just after resuming from suspend).
On several occasions I have seen this icon appear after not using the keyboard or mouse for a few minutes, while the display remains on. If I move the mouse, the icon immediately disappears. Today I was lucky enough to have the mouse in the right place so that the tooltip appeared and I learned about the issue. I'm using a Dell Latitude D620 with the nvidia proprietary driver from RPM Fusion. Packages: DeviceKit-power-014-1.fc12.x86_64 gnome-power-manager-2.28.2-2.fc12.x86_64 powertop-1.11-3.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.5.901-1.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.5.901-1.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-13.fc12.x86_64
Created attachment 400212 [details] sosreport of affected system I'm occasionally seeing this issue on a fully updated Fedora 12 system (attaching sosreport).
I'm having the same problem. Here is my info: gnome-power-manager-2.28.2-2.fc12.i686 xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-13.fc12.i686 DeviceKit-power-014-1.fc12.i686 xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.6-1.fc12.i686 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.6-1.fc12.i686 Here is my kernel version: 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686 I see a green running man icon in the panel. When I hold my cursor over the icon, a text box shows the following message: Session Active, not inhibited, screen idle. If you can see this text, your display server is broken and you should notify your distributor. Please see http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/08/17/gnome-power-manager-and-blanking-removal-of-bodges/ for more information.
Issue also applies to an ATI X800 (R430) video adapter on a fully updated F12 system including packages: gnome-power-manager-2.28.2-2.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-1.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.6-4.fc12.x86_64
After restoring from hibernation I experience the same issue. $ rpm -qa \*power\* xorg-x11\*server\* xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.6-3.fc12.x86_64 DeviceKit-power-014-1.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.6-3.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-13.fc12.x86_64 gnome-power-manager-2.28.2-2.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.7.6-3.fc12.x86_64 powertop-1.11-3.fc12.x86_64
I ran into this for the first time. I have been running F12 (fully updated) for a couple of months now with an ATI Radeon HD 4870. All of a sudden the screen went black for a second and then came back online with the "If you can see this text etc. etc." message. $ rpm -qa \*power\* xorg-x11\*server\* xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-13.fc12.x86_64 DeviceKit-power-014-1.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.6-4.fc12.x86_64 gnome-power-manager-2.28.2-2.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.6-4.fc12.x86_64
Noticed an odd icon in my panel today which led me to the blog and then to this bug report. Don't know if this is new, or I just never noticed it until today. The machine is a laptop which has been up 15 days and only put to sleep occasionally. # rpm -qa \*power\* xorg-x11\*server\* xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.6-4.fc12.ppc xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.6-4.fc12.ppc gnome-power-manager-2.28.2-2.fc12.ppc DeviceKit-power-014-1.fc12.ppc powerpc-utils-1.2.0-1.fc12.ppc xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-13.fc12.ppc
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