Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

Battery symbol isn't shown upon power plug being pulled

Bug #155564 reported by Raphael J. Schmid on 2007-10-21

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

My system tray showed no sign at all of g-p-m. Since I went to System>Preferences>Power Management[transl. from German]>General and checked "always show symbol" I do get an icon representing a power plug in the tray. It stays the same no matter whether I'm plugged in or not. In addition, the "Power Management" dialog only has a "Plugged in" [again, rough transl. from German] and a General tab; there's nothing like "On batter power".

In addition, the system also behaves wierdly when using the display brightness buttons on the keyboard (Fn+F5/F6 for me) and crashes upon standby or hibernate.

I find all this to be very strange since (a) it worked in Gutsy RC and (b) I have a System76 Bonobo laptop. The only thing I can confess doing is a dpkg --get-configurations in the RC and a dpkg --set-configurations after installation of the final build. I'll be happy to provide any diagnostic information that could be of help...

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Raphael J. Schmid (raphael-j-schmid) wrote on 2007-10-21:

I just wanted to mark this as a duplicate of #88174 which I had just discovered, but killing and re-starting g-p-m does not make things work here, so not marking as a dup.

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote on 2007-10-23:

can you run
gnome-power-manager --no-daemon --verbose >/tmp/gpm.log 2>&1
unplug and replug the power and attach the logged output here ?

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Raphael J. Schmid (raphael-j-schmid) wrote on 2007-10-23:

g-p-m logfile with the power plug being detached and attached again Edit (32.3 KiB, text/plain)

Hi Oliver,

find attached the log you asked for. Upon starting g-p-m my screen was dimmed to the lowest setting immediately, even though power was plugged in. Also I had the laptop crashing two or three times now since there's no battery empty warning anymore and also no auto-shutdown.

Cheers,
Raphael

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Carlos Ramirez (carlosfabianramirez) wrote on 2008-08-09:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!