Um, the webcam fault is hardware related. Are you sure you'd like me to make a separate report?
Basically, there seems to be a fifty-fifty chance of a smooth boot. On good days everything is fine, on bad days, the gnome-power-manager app take 100+ seconds to appear after request and the machine will not successfully go into standby. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/582570 Title: VERY slow boot, no battery icon in panel Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager Occurs in both 9.10 and 10.04 though with slightly different behaviour (64-bit editions). I haven't tried the 32-bit editions, but this definitely wasn't a problem in 8.04 x64 In 10.04 a dialog box appears after password-entry relating to the stuck process. 4+ min boot time, no battery icon in gnome panel and the brightness keys do not function. Machine is an Acer 5685. No extra info, but several other people reporting similar thing here http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1338256 - most with Acers. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue May 18 23:49:44 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: gnome-power-manager 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.3 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-generic SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic x86_64 --- AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23. Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: Cannot stat file /proc/3112/fd/44: Stale NFS file handle USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 3128 F.... pulseaudio CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xd2500000 irq 47' Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC883' Components : 'HDA:10ec0883,10250000,00100002 HDA:14f12bfa,1025007f,00090000' Controls : 24 Simple ctrls : 14 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) MachineType: Acer Aspire 5680 Package: linux (not installed) PccardctlIdent: Socket 0: no product info available PccardctlStatus: Socket 0: no card ProcCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4 Regression: Yes RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38 Reproducible: Yes Tags: maverick regression-potential needs-upstream-testing Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64 UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare dmi.bios.date: 10/25/2006 dmi.bios.vendor: Acer dmi.bios.version: V3.01 dmi.board.name: Grapevine dmi.board.vendor: Acer dmi.board.version: N/A dmi.chassis.asset.tag: �������������������� dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV3.01:bd10/25/2006:svnAcer:pnAspire5680:pvrV3.01:rvnAcer:rnGrapevine:rvrN/A:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: Aspire 5680 dmi.product.version: V3.01 dmi.sys.vendor: Acer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/582570/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

