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Bug 125591 - Battery Applet can't acces acpi events
Battery Applet can't acces acpi events
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-applets
Classification: Other
Component: battery
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-applets Maintainers
gnome-applets Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-10-27 12:26 UTC by Javier Amor García
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Javier Amor García 2003-10-27 12:26:33 UTC 
Description of Problem:
The applet doesn't function in  systems with acpi
powe-management
The error dialog appear with the message:
"Can't acces acpi events in /var/run/acpid.socket!"

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Add the aplet to the panel in a system with
acpi power managment

Actual Results:
The applet doesn't do anything

Expected Results:
In previous version the applet hadn't any trouble
getting acpi events

How often does this happen? 
Always

Additional Information:
The command-line tool "acpi" has not any trouble
in getting the info
In /var/run it is a file called ".acpid.socket" ,
not "acpid.socket". Changing the name may resolve
the bug.
Comment 1 Kjartan Maraas 2003-10-27 12:52:53 UTC 
What version of acpid and what distro? I have no files in /var/run
starting with a dot, so I wonder how yours is named that way...
Comment 2 Javier Amor García 2003-10-27 13:09:24 UTC 
Sorry, i forgot to add this information,:
I run debian unstable.
The version of gnome-applets is 2.4.0-2
The version of acpid is 1.0.2-6

I rechecked /var/run :
srw-rw-rw-    1 root     root            0 2003-10-27 12:44 .acpid.socket

This is the only hidden file in that directory
Comment 3 Kjartan Maraas 2003-10-27 13:41:56 UTC 
what distro was that? Fedora Core? Red Hat?
Comment 4 Javier Amor García 2003-10-27 13:47:22 UTC 
I run Debian
Comment 5 Javier Amor García 2003-10-27 16:23:10 UTC 
I had tried to shwo batterie status in the Notification Area and it
functions normally. So i don't think that the error is in apcid
Comment 6 Kjartan Maraas 2003-10-27 17:50:46 UTC 
It's definitely using /var/run/acpid.socket so I think your package or
configuration is broken somehow. I've not seen a single report of this
problem before and I think there would be a few if this was a problem
for others.
Comment 7 Christian Marillat 2003-10-31 19:51:44 UTC 
yes, this is a bug in the acpid Debian package.