I cannot reproduce this behavior and I don't get the d-bus timeouts on gnome-power-manager either. Can you please do these three commands in a Terminal and check if any of them time out?
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Power org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll string:'' dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Power/Policy org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll string:'' dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Power/Wakeups org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll string:'' ** Changed in: devicekit-power (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Gnome-panel loads very late after session start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs