g-p-m ships a file on RHEL5 which allows an @console session to claim org.gnome.PowerManager, but it doesn't appear to actually connect to the system bus and claim this name. This file should just be removed if that is indeed the case.
Yes agreed. I think this was an unused relic that dates to right to when g-p-m started using dbus. It's certainly not been in VCS for years now, but I guess it's still in the version shipped in RHEL5. If we get the required acks it would be trivial to remove this from the binary package.
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