I'm not sure if these are meaningful, but just in case, here is the debug output from gpm:
rocinante:~ % gnome-power-manager (gnome-power-manager:9284): devkit-power-gobject-DEBUG: DBUS timed out, but recovering (gnome-power-manager:9284): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Error invoking GetAll() to get properties: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (gnome-power-manager:9284): devkit-power-gobject-DEBUG: DBUS timed out, but recovering (gnome-power-manager:9284): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Error invoking GetAll() to get properties: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (gnome-power-manager:9284): devkit-power-gobject-WARNING **: Error invoking GetAll() to get properties: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (gnome-power-manager:9284): devkit-power-gobject-DEBUG: DBUS timed out, but recovering The last repeats 6 or 8 times until I killed the process. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org