I believe you are looking at the KDE Daemon

See if this gives any clues:

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54120

harold

On 03/30/2014 09:19 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
> I've got Kubuntu 13.10 and KDE 4.11.3.  Today I went into system 
> settings, then power management.  I get an error message saying "Power 
> management configuration module could not be loaded.  The power 
> management service appears not to be running.  This can be solved by 
> starting or scheduling it inside "Startup and shutdown"
>
> So I go to startup and shutdown, then I click service manager.  I get 
> a message saying Unable to contact KDED.
>
> I have no idea what KDED is or how to fix this.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>

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