kpowersave chrashes during logon

[Peter Swinkels]

Each time I log onto openSuse 10.2 (with KDE) on my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 6000) KPowersave chrashes.
Here is a screenshot:
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Here is a link to a text file with information provided by the crash handler: http://www.euronet.nl/users/swinkels/kpowersave.txt

The only time KPowersave doesn't crash appears to be when I logon as root. So it looks like a permissions issue.

Any one know how to fix this? It would be nice if I could keep track of my battery status without having to logon as root....

[daark.child]

I had this problem on openSUSE 10.0 and I resolved it by uninstalling SUSEs kpowersave package and then reinstalling it from source.

[Peter Swinkels]

Daark.child,

Could you point me in the right direction as to where to get the source (I assume you mean KPowersave's source code) and some decent installation instructions. Thank you.

[daark.child]

Take a look here for the source code. To compile it, you extract the contents of the tarball and then do

$./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`
$make
$su -c "make install"

Make sure you have the kdelibs, qt3 and xorg devel packages installed.

[Peter Swinkels]

Okay, I will give that a try. Thank you.

[Peter Swinkels]

It worked, thank you.

[daark.child]

Ok, thats great.