When I log into kde on a kvm install a grey notification box comes up saying The profile "AC" tried to activate DPMSControl, a non existent action. This is usually due to an installation problem or to a configuration problem. Obviously the virtual machine doesn't have dpms. In .kde/share/config/powermanagementprofilesrc I see the snippet: [AC][DPMSControl] idleTime=600 This can be seen on the Fedora 17 kde live image, so this is the "default" configuration and not some local configuration. I double-checked, and the same thing happens with a newly created test user too. First noticed on kde 4.8.3, confirmed still present on kde 4.8.4 and 4.8.95 (from http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2012-June/011659.html ) i.e. all of: kde-workspace-4.8.3-3.fc17.x86_64 kde-workspace-4.8.4-1.fc17.x86_64 kde-workspace-4.8.95-1.fc17.x86_64 Reproducible: Always This reminded me of bug 201235.
Actually, this might be the fault of qxl not implementing dpms. with vnc/cirrus: No warning $ grep -i dpms /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 12.572] (II) Loading extension DPMS [ 14.142] (==) CIRRUS(0): DPMS enabled with spice/qxl: Warning about DPMS $ grep -i dpms /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 12.633] (II) Loading extension DPMS
(Forgot to note, I found a similar bug report in opensuse - https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765679 - not sure why it apparently fixed itself)
I've filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=836819 about the xorg-x11-drv-qxl part of this.
Similar behaviour on VMWare. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-workspace/+bug/1039582
The warning stopped now that I have been updated to Platform Version 4.9.1.
The problem about the DPMS thing getting in your powermanagementprofilesrc is that the profilegenerator (which runs on first start on an empty session) just adds it to the config file (to set some defaults) without watching if the action is supported (or even compiled!) and so PowerDevil tries to activate an action that doesn't exist and so emits that ugly notification. So there are two things to do: - Don't add the DPMS action if it is not supported or compiled. (Review pending) - Make error handling saner, don't emit that notification on startup and everytime a profile changes … (Oliver Henshaw is working on that)
Git commit bbe593dbb6fb954c718c268d8a6cc31d8fbedd6f by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 28/11/2012 at 21:33. Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'. Do not add DPMS action to the profile if it is not supported / not compiled. This workarounds the error message about DPMS not loadable at least for fresh setups. REVIEW: 107503 M +16 -0 powerdevil/daemon/powerdevilprofilegenerator.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/bbe593dbb6fb954c718c268d8a6cc31d8fbedd6f
What's the status of this?
Kai, should we set this as fixed?
It's workarounded but the initial cause of the warning (powerdevil being too verbose about such minor problems) didn't make it into 4.10. Need to check the status on the patch on Review Board.
This is fixed now I take? Also, I have submited a patch to remove the notification and replace it with a kWarning. https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111768/
*** Bug 321508 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Git commit 4fb9668669c6bc789f0e0213e4ddbf67aa5dc797 by Àlex Fiestas. Committed on 01/08/2013 at 19:32. Pushed by afiestas into branch 'master'. Replace Notification by kWarning on missing/unsupported actions hat new behavior makes the notification "Action not found" deprecated since now it is totally possible that a profile tries to load an unsupported action such DimDisplay on most workstations. Related: bug 322973, bug 321508 REVIEW:111768 M +4 -4 powerdevil/daemon/powerdevilcore.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/4fb9668669c6bc789f0e0213e4ddbf67aa5dc797
Git commit e352d07f33207959bdc13352cedd4322eb107a7e by Àlex Fiestas. Committed on 01/08/2013 at 19:32. Pushed by afiestas into branch 'KDE/4.11'. Replace Notification by kWarning on missing/unsupported actions hat new behavior makes the notification "Action not found" deprecated since now it is totally possible that a profile tries to load an unsupported action such DimDisplay on most workstations. Related: bug 322973, bug 321508 REVIEW:111768 (cherry picked from commit 4fb9668669c6bc789f0e0213e4ddbf67aa5dc797) M +4 -4 powerdevil/daemon/powerdevilcore.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/e352d07f33207959bdc13352cedd4322eb107a7e