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gnome-power-manager package

"battery may be broken" dialog comes up when booting with an empty battery

Bug #392467 reported by christoph sturm
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devicekit-disks (Ubuntu)
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devicekit-power (Ubuntu)
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

when I boot my 1 month old x200s notebook with power connected and an empty battery, i get the "Battery may be broken Your battery has a very low capacity (0%)" dialog
the battery shows as 100% in the applet, but when I open the power statistics i see "Energy" and "Energy when full" both with the same value and increasing.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 26 11:39:58 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.27.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-10.12-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-10-generic x86_64

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christoph sturm (christoph-sturm) wrote :
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Scott Howard (showard314) wrote :

Thanks for your report and helping make Ubuntu better! Karmic shifts away from HAL towards devicekit, so I'm adding that package as a package it affects.

From DevkitPower.txt:

Device: /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Power/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:01/PNP0C09:00
    energy: 28.58 Wh
    energy-empty: 0 Wh
    energy-full: 28.58 Wh
    energy-full-design: 0 Wh
    energy-rate: 34.485 W
      time to full: 0 seconds
    time to empty: 0 seconds
    percentage: 100%
    capacity: 0%

It seems that DeviceKit doesn't report "energy-full-design" properly. However, I'm new to DeviceKit - maybe someone over there can see it.

Changed in devicekit-power (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Klaus Doblmann (moviemaniac) wrote :

sorry, I shouldn't work on multiple bugs at a time, flagged the wrong one...

Changed in devicekit-disks (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

We got a lot of bug fixes to devicekit-power since June. Do you still have this problem in Karmic beta? If so, can you please do

  devkit-power --dump > /tmp/dump.txt

and attach it here? Thanks!

Changed in devicekit-power (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Vish (vish) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. 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".

Changed in devicekit-power (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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