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gnome-power-manager package

[gutsy] wrong elapsed time

Bug #119397 reported by Oleksij Rempel
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

g-p-m report wrong elapsed time for my thinkpad t43. After unplug it say - 55 m. left :0 and after this time it will power off the laptop . I f i kill g-p-m laptop will work about 3 h.

Powertop report correct time for me http://www.linuxpowertop.org/

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. With which version of gnome-power-manager did you notice this issue? You could check with 'dpkg -l gnome-power-manager'. Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
assignee: nobody → brian-murray
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Jerome Soyer (saispo) wrote :

I have the same problem with Gutsy and latest g-p-m. My g-p-m version is 2.19.2-0ubuntu4.

Powertop work fine and report me good elapsed time.

Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in gnome-power-manager:
assignee: brian-murray → nobody
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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Oleksij Rempel (olerem) wrote :

i use same the version.

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none (ubuntu-bugs-nullinfinity-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I also have this problem in Gutsy. The Feisty version worked fine. The Gutsy g-p-m says "Laptop batteries 5 minutes remaining (92%)" which is quite obviously wrong. It is possible that this is related to g-p-m detecting two battery bays for my laptop, with one of them being empty. As far as I know you can only connect one battery to this laptop, but it's possible there's a connector if I remove the CD drive (which is of the non-swappable variety), I haven't looked.

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Jerome Soyer (saispo) wrote :

It seems working fine with the latest svn. But seems a difference between the output of acpitool and powertop too.

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

I ran into a similar problem (bug 120258) with incorrect discharge time shown. For that, it was resolved as follows:
In gconf-editor, set apps->gnome-power-manager->use_profile_time to FALSE (unchecked).

Could someone check and see if doing this resolves this bug as well?

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
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none (ubuntu-bugs-nullinfinity-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Yes, unchecking use_profile_time works around the bug.

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Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín (snifer) wrote :

should this bug be marked as duplicate of bug #120258?

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Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín (snifer) wrote :

Answering to myself: NO. Bug #120258 is a feisty bug (g-p-m version 2.18.x). This is a gutsy bug, caused by a feature (battery profiles) added in version 2.19.x. It's known upstream.

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Changed in gnome-power:
status: Unknown → Needs Info
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Matthias Mainzer (matthias-mainzer) wrote :

hello i have the same problem with my acer aspire 3004wlmi

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status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote :

I also have this problem on a Dell Inspiron laptop, Gutsy tribe 2, gnome-power-manager 2.19.5

It shows 5 minutes remaining for approximately 2 minutes, and just keep saying " the discharge time is estimated " after that 2 minutes.

setting apps->gnome-power-manager->use_profile_time to FALSE ( unchecked ) dont't work for me. I tested it with and without rebooting.

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Oleksij Rempel (olerem) wrote :

seems to be fixed for me.
Thank you.

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote :

Fixed for me too

Thanks

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Changed in gnome-power:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote :

Reported as fixed by submitter (likely the new upstream 2.19.6)

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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Luke12 (luca-venturini) wrote :

Well, it is not fixed for me. Gutsy, Dell Inspiron 6400, I had to disable the use_profile_time to have correct time visualized.

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Changed in gnome-power:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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Changed in gnome-power:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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