The notification icon is not updated

Sorry for the typos... I obviously meant gnome-power-manager.

I'm seeing very similar issues. If I unplug the power I see a change. Likewise if I plug in. But while it's charging it never updates the icon to indicate what the charge percentage is.

Can you please run lshal -m and see what events you get when charging and discharging. Thanks.

Here's what I get when I un-plug my laptop:

acpi_AC property ac_adapter.present = false
acpi_CMB1 property battery.remaining_time = 3758 (0xeae) (new)
acpi_CMB1 property battery.charge_level.rate = 41374800 (0x2775450)
acpi_CMB1 property battery.voltage.current = 12308 (0x3014)
acpi_CMB1 property battery.reporting.rate = 3831 (0xef7)

And here's what I get when I re-plug it:

acpi_AC property ac_adapter.present = true
acpi_CMB1 property battery.remaining_time removed
acpi_CMB1 property battery.charge_level.rate = 0 (0x0)
acpi_CMB1 property battery.voltage.current = 12166 (0x2f86)
acpi_CMB1 property battery.reporting.rate = 0 (0x0)

But in all cases, the notification icon shows the battery icon.

This is a problem with your hardware; on my system ACPI generates on unplug:

acpi_ADP1 property ac_adapter.present = false
acpi_BAT1 property battery.remaining_time = 7237 (0x1c45) (new)
acpi_BAT1 property battery.charge_level.rate = 20714 (0x50ea)
acpi_BAT1 property battery.reporting.rate = 20714 (0x50ea)
acpi_BAT1 property battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = true

You see how the is_discharging value is present in my output but not yours? In g-p-m we have to go with what the battery says, rather than the ac_adapter so we can support the different types of multibattery laptops.

Can you do a BIOS update, or maybe fix your DSDT? What laptop do you have?

My laptop is a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S6120. I have no clue how to fix the DSDT or update the BIOS. More over, it would be better to find a solution so that this laptop works out of the box, IMHO, because very few people "fix their DSDT" or "update their BIOS" :)

Please see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334212 where we are working on a fix.

OK, thanks for the link.

I still see this problem.

Andrew, what does "lshal | grep battery" print when on battery power and AC power?

You asked Andrew, but I'll anwser anyway as I'm having the same problem.

Here's what I get when running on AC power:

julien@lifebook ~ $ lshal | grep battery
  battery.charge_level.percentage = 100 (0x64) (int)
  battery.charge_level.rate = 0 (0x0) (int)
  battery.charge_level.last_full = 43200000 (0x2932e00) (int)
  battery.charge_level.current = 43200000 (0x2932e00) (int)
  battery.voltage.current = 12424 (0x3088) (int)
  battery.reporting.rate = 0 (0x0) (int)
  battery.reporting.current = 4000 (0xfa0) (int)
  battery.charge_level.capacity_state = 'ok' (string)
  battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = true (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_charging = false (bool)
  battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool)
  battery.charge_level.unit = 'mWh' (string)
  battery.charge_level.granularity_2 = 10800 (0x2a30) (int)
  battery.charge_level.granularity_1 = 10800 (0x2a30) (int)
  battery.charge_level.low = 0 (0x0) (int)
  battery.charge_level.warning = 0 (0x0) (int)
  battery.charge_level.design = 43200000 (0x2932e00) (int)
  battery.voltage.design = 10800 (0x2a30) (int)
  battery.voltage.unit = 'mV' (string)
  battery.reporting.granularity_2 = 1 (0x1) (int)
  battery.reporting.granularity_1 = 1 (0x1) (int)
  battery.reporting.low = 0 (0x0) (int)
  battery.reporting.warning = 0 (0x0) (int)
  battery.reporting.design = 4000 (0xfa0) (int)
  battery.reporting.last_full = 4000 (0xfa0) (int)
  battery.reporting.unit = 'mAh' (string)
  battery.technology = 'LION' (string)
  battery.serial = '1' (string)
  battery.model = 'CP147685-XX' (string)
  battery.vendor = 'Fujitsu' (string)
  battery.present = true (bool)
  info.capabilities = {'battery'} (string list)
  info.category = 'battery' (string)
  battery.type = 'primary' (string)
  linux.acpi_path = '/proc/acpi/battery/CMB1' (string)
  battery.present = false (bool)
  info.capabilities = {'battery'} (string list)
  info.category = 'battery' (string)
  battery.type = 'primary' (string)
  linux.acpi_path = '/proc/acpi/battery/CMB2' (string)

And here's what I get just after un-plugging it:

julien@lifebook ~ $ lshal | grep battery
  battery.remaining_time = 3755 (0xeab) (int)
  battery.charge_level.percentage = 100 (0x64) (int)
  battery.charge_level.rate = 41407200 (0x277d2e0) (int)
  battery.charge_level.last_full = 43200000 (0x2932e00) (int)
  battery.charge_level.current = 43200000 (0x2932e00) (int)
  battery.voltage.current = 12334 (0x302e) (int)
  battery.reporting.rate = 3834 (0xefa) (int)
  battery.reporting.current = 4000 (0xfa0) (int)
  battery.charge_level.capacity_state = 'ok' (string)
  battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = true (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_charging = false (bool)
  battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool)
  battery.charge_level.unit = 'mWh' (string)
  battery.charge_level.granularity_2 = 10800 (0x2a30) (int)
  battery.charge_level.granularity_1 = 10800 (0x2a30) (int)
  battery.charge_level.low = 0 (0x0) (int)
  battery.charge_level.warning = 0 (0x0) (int)
  battery.charge_level.design = 43200000 (0x2932e00) (int)
  battery.volt...

Since Julien already posted his logs I thought I'd just post the diff between my two logs. Looks like nothing interesting to me. Or perhaps I misunderstood the question.

1,2c1,2
< battery.remaining_time = 4643 (0x1223) (int)
< battery.charge_level.percentage = 59 (0x3b) (int)
---
> battery.remaining_time = 4295 (0x10c7) (int)
> battery.charge_level.percentage = 58 (0x3a) (int)
5,6c5,6
< battery.charge_level.current = 25054380 (0x17e4cac) (int)
< battery.voltage.current = 11320 (0x2c38) (int)
---
> battery.charge_level.current = 24719890 (0x1793212) (int)
> battery.voltage.current = 11286 (0x2c16) (int)
8c8
< battery.reporting.current = 2322 (0x912) (int)
---
> battery.reporting.current = 2291 (0x8f3) (int)

I have the same or a very similar problem. Whenever gnome-power-manager starts up, it displays the correct status, but then it just stays there and never updates (not in case of plug/unplug, neither in case of charging/discharging).

If I do a 'killall gnome-power-manager; gnome-power-manager' the status is updated (and stays there). To me this looks as if gnome-power-manager were hanging somewhere.

Ah, I forgot to say that it worked on dapper. It stopped working on edgy. I am currently running gnome-power-manager 2.14.3-0ubuntu11.

Off-Topic: this malone bug tracker is the worst piece of crap I've ever used. Even Bugzilla is better, and when I compare it to the wonderful greatness of the Debian BTS I just feel sick. No need to register to report a bug! Automated version reporting! Searching which works! Oh Ubuntu.

its not supposed to work on edgy yet, g-p-m is waiting for a new hal with policy kit enabled. this bug is only valid for dapper, if it doesnt work with g-p-m 2.15 in edgy once thats out, please file a new bug.

Off-topic: Aaron. Malone now sucks less than it used it, the reason that is sucks less is because we (the users of Malone) keep telling the Launchpad developers how to improve each little part.

Pick each part that is broken for you, figure out how to improve it and file a (constructive) bug report at:

  https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+filebug

then hopefully it'll continue to get better for all of us to use.

The notification icon does not appear to update when plugged and unplugged here as well, on Dapper Drake. The icon does update once a notification bubble appears, however (such as "You are at critical battery level").

Fixed upstream (looks like 2.17.x material).

new version available in 7.04, closing