Hibernate when battery is critically low not working

[Jaka]

I have a Dell Studio laptop, Elementary up to date.

System settings -> Power -> Battery power:

here I have "When the power is critically low" set to "Hibernate".

But it's not working. The computer dies at some point when battery is low. In a second ... it's just powers off. It doesn't hibernate at all. I hope this is enough.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.289-0~363~precise1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-35.55-generic 3.2.34
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-35-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Sat Jan 5 12:21:18 2013
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Beta 1 amd64 (20121114)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

I wonder if this could be related to bug #1096322.

[Jaka (jaka-luthar)]

How do I find this dconf entry in dconf?

I guess it is not related with bug #1096322 because I have these options... they just do not work... :)

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Launch dconf-editor and navigate to org > gnome > settings-daemon > plugins > power and look at critical-battery-action

[Jaka (jaka-luthar)]

yep... it's set to hibernate...

I also reported Bug #1106039, maybe the problem is related.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

I have verified that we are setting the configuration entries properly so this problem is outside the scope of this project. I'm not sure whose fault it is if it's still happening.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for elementary OS because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Switchboard Plug Power because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Jorge (jorge-torres646)]

So it still not working..

[L'Africain (lafricain79)]

I have almost the same problem. But my option is not to hibernate but to shutdown. I noticed this issue on Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity, lubuntu, ubuntu mate on diverse computers. I customised with dconf on Unity,the critical level battery to 20% but it won't to shutdown at this critical level, computer works till the end of the battery!