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#1 2017-10-03 11:49:20

alpez
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Brightness keys and power manager not working - MATE

Hi,
I have a problem which (I guess) is probably related to this very recent one.
I run Arch Linux with MATE and LightDM.
After a recent update I lost the functionality of the brightness adjustment keys (as it happened in the post above). Moreover, I lost the power-manager applet icon in the notification area, and I can't figure out how to get it back. This seems to be quite common to anybody with the same distro (including Antergos, basically the same) and desktop installed.
Any solution?

Last edited by alpez (2017-10-04 09:25:44)

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#2 2017-10-03 12:13:09

LDSX
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Re: Brightness keys and power manager not working - MATE

have the same problem here on GNOME Wayland And X.. only fn + brightness keys not working

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#3 2017-10-04 08:09:27

pittix
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Re: Brightness keys and power manager not working - MATE

Same problem here. Doing a

 journalctl -xb 

I've noticed that the process mate-power manager core dumped

 Process 3649 (mate-power-mana) of user 1000 dumped core.

right now I cannot investigate more, but if you find it useful this is the output of my core dump:

systemd-coredump[3742]: Process 3649 (mate-power-mana) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                               
                                               Stack trace of thread 3649:
                                               #0  0x00007fa7853618a0 raise (libc.so.6)
                                               #1  0x00007fa785362f09 abort (libc.so.6)
                                               #2  0x00007fa785cbecbd g_assertion_message (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #3  0x00007fa785cbed4a g_assertion_message_expr (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #4  0x000000000040e42b n/a (mate-power-manager)
                                               #5  0x00007fa77fe2a1c8 ffi_call_unix64 (libffi.so.6)
                                               #6  0x00007fa77fe29c2a ffi_call (libffi.so.6)
                                               #7  0x00007fa785f716a9 g_cclosure_marshal_generic (libgobject-2.0.so.0)
                                               #8  0x00007fa785f70ead g_closure_invoke (libgobject-2.0.so.0)
                                               #9  0x00007fa785f834ae n/a (libgobject-2.0.so.0)
                                               #10 0x00007fa785f8bc85 g_signal_emit_valist (libgobject-2.0.so.0)
                                               #11 0x00007fa785f8c69f g_signal_emit (libgobject-2.0.so.0)
                                               #12 0x00007fa7864a4a4c n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0)
                                               #13 0x00007fa7864942f4 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0)
                                               #14 0x00007fa785c988c5 g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #15 0x00007fa785c98c88 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #16 0x00007fa785c98fa2 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #17 0x0000000000408584 n/a (mate-power-manager)
                                               #18 0x00007fa78534df6a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6)
                                               #19 0x000000000040864a n/a (mate-power-manager)
                                               
                                               Stack trace of thread 3681:
                                               #0  0x00007fa785418cbb __poll (libc.so.6)
                                               #1  0x00007fa785c98c09 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #2  0x00007fa785c98d1c g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #3  0x00007fa785c98d61 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #4  0x00007fa785cbfae5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #5  0x00007fa7856eb08a start_thread (libpthread.so.0)
                                               #6  0x00007fa7854231bf __clone (libc.so.6)
                                               
                                               Stack trace of thread 3682:
                                               #0  0x00007fa785418cbb __poll (libc.so.6)
                                               #1  0x00007fa785c98c09 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #2  0x00007fa785c98fa2 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #3  0x00007fa7864a8546 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0)
                                               #4  0x00007fa785cbfae5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #5  0x00007fa7856eb08a start_thread (libpthread.so.0)
                                               #6  0x00007fa7854231bf __clone (libc.so.6)
                                               
                                               Stack trace of thread 3689:
                                               #0  0x00007fa785418cbb __poll (libc.so.6)
                                               #1  0x00007fa785c98c09 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #2  0x00007fa785c98d1c g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #3  0x00007fa7779dc55d n/a (libdconfsettings.so)
                                               #4  0x00007fa785cbfae5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #5  0x00007fa7856eb08a start_thread (libpthread.so.0)
                                               #6  0x00007fa7854231bf __clone (libc.so.6)
                                               
                                               Stack trace of thread 3740:
                                               #0  0x00007fa78541dbb9 syscall (libc.so.6)
                                               #1  0x00007fa785cddcba g_cond_wait_until (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #2  0x00007fa785c6d121 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #3  0x00007fa785cc0484 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #4  0x00007fa785cbfae5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0)
                                               #5  0x00007fa7856eb08a start_thread (libpthread.so.0)
                                               #6  0x00007fa7854231bf __clone (libc.so.6)

Edit: from terminal, if I digit

 (mate power manager &) 

everything is fixed, but I don't know why. Need to check

Last edited by pittix (2017-10-04 08:32:39)

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#4 2017-10-04 09:19:54

alpez
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Re: Brightness keys and power manager not working - MATE

pittix wrote:

from terminal, if I digit

 (mate power manager &) 

everything is fixed, but I don't know why. Need to check

Great! It works at startup as well. Thanks

EDIT: I marked the thread solved 5 mins ago, but have just noticed that it stops working after some random time.

Last edited by alpez (2017-10-04 09:30:12)

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#5 2017-10-05 07:50:49

pittix
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Re: Brightness keys and power manager not working - MATE

alpez wrote:

EDIT: I marked the thread solved 5 mins ago, but have just noticed that it stops working after some random time.

The problem still wasn't fixed, as what I posted was a temporarily fix. Everytime the system starts, mate-power manager fails, and we don't know why yet.

The problem seems to be related to this, as it crashes when keyboard backlight is changed.

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