Ubuntu
kde-guidance package

kde-guidance-powermanager wrongly says 'battery removed'

Bug #152033 reported by Michael Helmling
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kde-guidance (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: kde-guidance-powermanager

I am running up-to-date Kubuntu Gutsy on my laptop. It always happens after ~20 minutes of normal operation that the kde-guidance-powermanager pops up a message saying "laptop battery removed" -- although I did nothing with my battery. Removing and re-entering the battery doesn't change the powermanager icon, it still says no battery installed.
Interestingly a 'cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state' shows me the correct state, so this is not an ACPI issue. Also, after restarting the powermanager applet, it shows the correct state.

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Luka Renko (lure) wrote :

Is it possible that dbus or HAL would be restarted by some chance? For example due to package upgrade or similar?

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status: New → Incomplete
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Michael Helmling (supermihi) wrote :

I guess you're right. Another test without installing any upgrades ran normally. However still the software doesn't behave as it should: If dbus/HAL is restarted, the guidance power manager should detect this and try to reconnect to dbus or otherwise maybe display a failure popup. Should I enter a new bug?

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Luka Renko (lure) wrote :

Thanks for confirming. I agree this should be addressed better, but I have found no easy way to do it for gutsy. This is duplicate of bug 123812

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