Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

Wrong notification area icon displayed on startup

Bug #61493 reported by David Planella
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

After booting, g-p-m displays a wrong notification area icon, which does not provide any information about the battery status (see atached screenshots). This happens both when booting with AC and without.

This icon remains unchanged throughout the session, and the only way to get the proper status icon to show up is to either plug or unplug the AC adapter, or when the battery status goes from charging to fully charged. After that, the notification icon shows the battery status as expected.

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David Planella (dpm) wrote :

Here the icon g-p-m is showing can be seen next to the System Monitor icon in the notification area. It looks like a battery with a kind of "no entry" sign in the middle.

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David Planella (dpm) wrote :

Here's another screenshot with a zoomed version of the icon, which is also displayed when executing the "Information" menu entry of g-p-m.

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Matthew Lange (matthewlange) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report.

I have a few questions:
What make and model of laptop is it?
What version of Ubuntu is it?

When you log in, and get the battery message depicted by the first screenshot, could you please attach the output of the 'tail dmesg' command.

Thanks!
--Matthew

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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David Planella (dpm) wrote :

* Laptop:

Medion Microstar MD9643, which in different countries was sold as a Tiny A360, Gericom M6T, etc. But the basis model for all of these was the FIC A360+. Here are the specs:

http://www.laptopsolutions.plc.uk/Fic_A360_A360+_Spec_Sheet.htm

* Ubuntu version: Edgy, g-p-m 2.16.0-0ubuntu3

* See attached file for the output of dmesg.

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Matthew Lange (matthewlange) wrote :

Should be enough information here for a 'Confirmed' bug. Thanks again for your report.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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David Planella (dpm) wrote :

Update:

* The icon shown is the following:

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/gpm-primary-missing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/gpm-primary-missing.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/gpm-primary-missing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/gpm-primary-missing.png

* This issue only happens when starting the gnome session with the AC adapter *removed*, that is, with battery power only.

Any comments on how to provide more info and trace the problem will be more than welcome.

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David Planella (dpm) wrote :

Yet another update:

With the latest upgrade to g-p-m 2.16.1, this bug seems to be resolved. I will keep an eye on it for possible regressions, so I won't close it just yet.

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Simon Law (sfllaw) wrote :

The reporter claims that this is now fixed.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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