> Hi.
> I also have this problem with 2.6.26 and when it happens I can notice
> that sometimes gnome-power-manager is slow to respond when I switch to
> AC from battery and viceversa. Also, sometimes the g-p-m icon
> disappears and I have to restart the process.
>
> I tried two days ago the patch
>
>
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=16365&action=view
>
> and everything seems to work ok since then. Before that, the message
> showed up sometimes at boot time, sometimes minutes later, very
> reliably.
>
> This is with a two years old fairly standard HP laptop.
>
> Regards,
> Fabio