Battery Status Applet not working properly

could you do an apport-collect 650998 ? it's going to add the missing logs to the report, thanks.

Hi

I started the process but then got as far as Launchpad saying (in browser)

''Almost finished ...
To finish authorizing the application identified as apport-collect to
access Launchpad on your behalf you should go back to the application
window in which you started the process and inform it that you have
done your part of the process.''

Not quite sure how to 'inform it that you have done your part of the
process.' and complete the report.The Run Application window (Alt F2)
closes automatically once apport-collect 650998 is executed.

On 5 October 2010 15:46, Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden> wrote:
> could you do an apport-collect 650998 ? it's going to add the missing
> logs to the report, thanks.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
>   Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Battery Status Applet not working properly
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/650998
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: indicator-application
>
> 10.10 Beta
> Indicator Applet 0.4.6
>
> When clicking on the battery symbol in the Indicator Applet, instead of displaying the battery level it says 'Laptop battery (estimating...)' but never provides an estimate.
>
> The on-screen pop-up (notify-osd?) when there is a change, like unplugging AC power, is however accurate and provides the battery percentage.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: indicator-application 0.2.9-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Sep 29 12:02:15 2010
> ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.utf8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: indicator-application
> XsessionErrors:
>  (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1876): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
>  (nautilus:1873): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/650998/+subscribe
>

More on this bug.

At the moment, clicking on the battery status indicator (for the first time*)only highlights a box around the indicator, you then have to click a second time to get the status. The status is still false and is sometimes duplicated, shown in two lines:

Laptop battery (estimating...)
Laptop battery (estimating...)

*Once you have displayed the status once, you can redisplay it with only one click during the same session (?? I guess until you logout / shutdown and start again)

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I'm on 10.10 x86_64. (not beta)

Battery state is working in gkrellm, only gnome-power-manager is broken. I can cat /proc/acpi/battery/ and (though I am no expert) looks okay, so kernel config is probably fine.

[Expired for gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

The bug is (still) present in 11.04.

And STILL unresolved in Ubuntu 10.10.

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
GnomeSessionInhibitors: None
GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv3500 Notebook PC
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.32.0-2ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=75bb4562-7952-47ef-bb91-e3955154daab ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Tags: natty
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (10 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 02/04/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.13
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 1505
dmi.board.vendor: Inventec
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 13.13
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU8432XLV
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Inventec
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.13:bd02/04/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv3500NotebookPC:pvrF.13:rvnInventec:rn1505:rvrKBCVersion13.13:cvnInventec:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv3500 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: F.13
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

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Sorry for the spam. I was not aware that appending the logs would create this lot of comments.

Interestingly, I personally can't remember having seen this in Maverick or Lucid. Only no since Natty it bothers me.

A bug that I'm experiencing since ubuntu 9.x is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/501500
But it's unlikely that it's related.

Thank you for helping and please contact me if I can support you.

This bug came up with ubuntu 10.10 and still exists in natty indeed. It does not exist in the current debian distro by the way.

Came here via duplicate bug #720281.

What can be done to help with this issue?

Confirmed it is working in 11.10 beta.

[Expired for gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]