turned out my hard drive was full (both / and /home reside on the same partition). after freeing some disk space the error message went away.
-- GNOME Power Manager installation problem https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127617 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
