lost my toolbar power monitor!

I keep mepis-oscenter,meauto and meauto-data as current as possible. Yesterday I attempted an upgrade of them to 3.4.7, 3.3.4-6 and 3.4.3-3 respectively.

meauto gave grave error warnings relating to the kernel and udev, so I didn't install it.

Nothing seemed amiss until I turned on my laptop this morning. I had lost my power monitor! During the boot a msg scrolled by saying apm had been blacklisted. I checked the blacklist but didn't find any listings relating to the apm.

Looking at the repository listings I found no settings that would allow me to downgrade meauto-data and the oscenter.

Any suggestions?