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gnome-power-manager package

The battery notification icon don't show the current battery power

Bug #67236 reported by Keidson Paiva de Freitas
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gnome-power
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

The battery notification icon don't show the current percentage of battery when charging or when using the battery, it only shows 0%. It's very strange, because when i restart the session the percentage gets updated, but then it stays unchanged until i restart the session again.
This behavior occurs too in the power information dialog, where no information is updated at all.

Laptop Model:
Acer Aspire 3003LCi
Sempron 3000+
40 GB HD
512 MB RAM
ChipSet SiS 760

Thanks.

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Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33) wrote :

If you type acpi in a terminal during this problem, what do you get ?

Luka Renko (lure)
Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Keidson Paiva de Freitas (keidson) wrote :

The acpi command show this when i unpluged the power cable:

Battery 1: discharging, 95%, 00:26:53 remaining

and this was right, but gpm still not update the information dialog or the notification icon.

The notification icon show an empty battery icon, and says in the tooltip window that the battery is discharging and that the charge is 0%.

The information dialog show that the battery has 100% of charge.

Another thing i noticed is that the window of notification on status change appears in the bottom of the screen, while the icon is displayed in top of screen.

So in the end i have 3 different informations, one from acpi, other from notification icon and another from gpm information dialog.

I hope this help.

Thanks.

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badhorse (newbadhorse-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Same problem in my Acer Aspire 1640z.
ACPI command shows the correct info but not gpm.

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

I think this maybe a dup, I remember tracking down (and I thought, fixing) the localisation in the icon-name issue.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Needs Info → Fix Committed
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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Scratch that, I was triaging the wrong bug.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Fix Committed → Unconfirmed
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Séverin Lemaignan (skadge) wrote :

I notice this bug today too, on Feisty. It happened after an hibernation.
See on the screenshot (battery actually 100% and computer plugged, but the GPM shows an "empty" icon)

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Séverin Lemaignan (skadge) wrote :

No news on this front ?
With a fresh install of Feisty, I still have this bug. After an hibernation, the Power Manager icon looks empty.
I'm running:
Linux 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
on an ASUS A7J.

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Séverin Lemaignan (skadge) wrote :

Bug reported upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412308

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

I ran into something vaguely similar in bug 120258, which I could control by doing this:
In gconf-editor, set apps->gnome-power-manager->use_profile_time to FALSE (unchecked).

Could you check your gconf settings for g-p-m and see if toggling them makes this resolve?

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Changed in gnome-power:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Changed in gnome-power:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Changed in gnome-power:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Changed in gnome-power-manager:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Changed in gnome-power:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Changed in gnome-power:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) wrote :

The bug was reported to be fix in gnome-power (called gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu). Hardy and higher are supposed to have the fix included. Could someone try to reproduce this bug with a recent Ubuntu version and come back with updated information here ?

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Séverin Lemaignan (skadge) wrote : Re: [Bug 67236] Re: The battery notification icon don't show the current battery power

I would like to confirm it's solved, but since I'm unable to reliably
hibernate/unhibernate...

Well, but I didn't noticed any troubles recently on this matter.
I think we can confidently mark the bug "solved".

Thanks,
Séverin

2009/11/1 Simon Déziel <email address hidden>:
> The bug was reported to be fix in gnome-power (called gnome-power-
> manager in Ubuntu). Hardy and higher are supposed to have the fix
> included. Could someone try to reproduce this bug with a recent Ubuntu
> version and come back with updated information here ?
>
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> The battery notification icon don't show the current battery power
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Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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importance: Unknown → Medium
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