Ok, found part of the answer: /usr/sbin/hald is not running.

How do I find out how that happens?

Am Samstag, 31. August 2013 schrieb Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp:
> Hi all!
>
> I just ran into an interesting problem with kpowermanger (fresh installed
> wheezy + TDE 3.5.13.2):
>
> when I have my testuser configured to "autologin" and has "kpowermanager"
> aktivated, then
> - on the first autologin, kpowermanager does not work, i.e. it shows a
> dithered plug symbol.
> - testuser logs out and automaticaly logs in again: "kpowermanager" works
> as intended.
>
> Is there an easy workaround instead of logging out the first time?
> Could somebody with a deeper insight in TDE internals guide me to debug the
> problem?
>
> nik



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