Fedora 30 doesn't display battery status, function keys don't work properly

Hello guys,
today my Fedora 30 gives me some headache:

  • Gnome doesn’t display the battery status (acpi works)
  • Gnome power manager tool takes a few minutes to open
  • Fn keys don’t work the first 2 minutes after starting Fedora.
    What could be the problem?
    Thanks for help!
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This happened to me once I installed the newest kernel (5.1.5). When I check journalctl -p warning -b I see this, which seems like the likely culprit.

Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2418]: upower.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2418]: upower.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/libexec/upowerd: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: upower.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Daemon for power management.
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com gnome-shell[2146]: g_dir_open_with_errno: assertion 'path != NULL' failed
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com gnome-shell[2146]: g_filename_to_utf8: assertion 'opsysstring != NULL' failed
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2425]: geoclue.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2425]: geoclue.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/libexec/geoclue: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: geoclue.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Location Lookup Service.
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2473]: upower.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2473]: upower.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/libexec/upowerd: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: upower.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Daemon for power management.
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com gsd-xsettings[2440]: Failed to get current display configuration state: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Destination does not exist
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2520]: upower.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2520]: upower.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/libexec/upowerd: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: upower.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Daemon for power management.
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2533]: fprintd.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2533]: fprintd.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/libexec/fprintd: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: fprintd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Fingerprint Authentication Daemon.
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2542]: upower.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2542]: upower.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/libexec/upowerd: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: upower.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 04 11:59:32 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Daemon for power management.
Jun 04 11:59:33 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2545]: upower.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:33 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[2545]: upower.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/libexec/upowerd: Permission denied
Jun 04 11:59:33 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: upower.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 04 11:59:33 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Daemon for power management.
Jun 04 11:59:33 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: upower.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jun 04 11:59:33 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: upower.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 04 11:59:33 raijin.simulcast.ove.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Daemon for power management.

All that said, I’m a bit at a loss of what to do from here to fix it. Maybe someone else has some insight?

There was another related topic that fixed this for me. Downgrading snapd one version solved all these problems, including the battery status.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/slow-sudo-execution-since-snapd-update/74687?u=jhannafin

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Yep that was the problem. I’ve removed snapd.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1708991

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Thanks, upgrading snapd to 2.39.1-1.fc30
fixed the issues in my case.