---
name: "upowerd"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "upower"
version: "1.91.5-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/upowerd"
---

# upowerd(8)

UPower Daemon

## NAME

upowerd - UPower Daemon

## SYNOPSIS

**upowerd** \[**--help**\]

## DESCRIPTION

*upowerd* provides the *org.freedesktop.UPower* service on the system message bus. Users or administrators should never need to start this daemon as it will be automatically started by [**dbus-daemon**(1)](/dbus-daemon/1.md) whenever an application calls into the *org.freedesktop.UPower* service.

## OPTIONS

- **--help**

  Show help options.

## AUTHOR

Written by David Zeuthen \<davidz@redhat.com\> with a lot of help from many others.

## BUGS

Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the DeviceKit mailing list, see **http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel** on how to subscribe.

## SEE ALSO

[**UPower**(7)](/UPower/7.md), [**upower**(1)](/upower/1.md), [**dbus-daemon**(1)](/dbus-daemon/1.md),