Note what appears to be a duplicate: Debian bug #606650. Note the upstream bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611890
My system also has this behavior. It was installed only a few days ago. Debian Squeeze on an HP Elitebook 8540w. Kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64. gnome-power-manager 2.32.0-2 Gpm dependencies: consolekit 0.4.1-4 dbus-x11 1.2.24-4 gconf2 2.28.1-6 libbonobo2-0 2.24.3-1 libc6 2.11.2-10 libcairo2 1.8.10-6 libcanberra-gtk0 0.24-1 libcanberra0 0.24-1 libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4 libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 libgconf2-4 2.28.1-6 libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 libgnome-keyring0 2.30.1-1 libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 libnotify1 0.5.0-2 libnotify1-gtk2.10 <none> libpanel-applet2-0 2.30.2-2 libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze1 libunique-1.0-0 1.1.6-1.1 libupower-glib1 0.9.5-5 libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-3 notification-daemon 0.5.0-2 upower 0.9.5-5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org