Prob with policykit1-kde; battery monitor? [SOLVED]

Is anybody else getting this message when starting KDE4.4.1?
"We are sorry. PolicyKit1-KDE closed unexpectedly."
"Details: Executable: polkit-k"de-authentication-agent-1 PID: 4527 Signal: 6 (Aborted)"
Perhaps related, perhaps not: Stock panel battery monitor no longer recognizes battery.
Could this be due to the recent dbus and dbus-core updates on March 23 (1.2.20 -> 1.2.22)?
Last edited by dhave (2010-03-24 10:29:47)

This is happening to me too. It started happening immediately after the dbus update for me, too.
I also happened to notice that the system-wide dbus instance (that is, the one that shows up in the ps output as "/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system" running as user "dbus") crashes upon startup of KDE. (It shown up in ps output before KDE starts, but not after, and upon running shutdown, the output from the /etc/rc.d/dbus script says that it failed to stop dbus.)
It looks like it might be because of this bug: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18796

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