Ubuntu
hal package

shows too many batteries

Bug #194044 reported by Ralf Hildebrandt on 2008-02-21

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #177570: [hardy] two batteries display when left clicking on g-p-m. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	hal (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: kpowersave

$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info
present: no
$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
present: yes
design capacity: 78250 mWh
last full capacity: 60680 mWh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 11100 mV
design capacity warning: 7825 mWh
design capacity low: 2371 mWh
capacity granularity 1: 782 mWh
capacity granularity 2: 782 mWh
model number: DELL D2340
serial number: 5479
battery type: LION
OEM info: Panasonic

Yet, kpowersave shows a whopping 4 batteries (see attachment), with battery 2 missing. Very, very odd.

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Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt) wrote on 2008-02-21:

4 batteries, with battery 2 missing... Edit (33.5 KiB, image/png)

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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote on 2008-02-21:

Thanks for the bug report. This issue has already been reported and should be fixed with the following upgrade:

This bug was fixed in the package hal - 0.5.10-5ubuntu7

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hal (0.5.10-5ubuntu7) hardy; urgency=low

  * Add debian/patches/95_virtual_net_devices.patch: Include virtual network
    devices which do not have a physical parent. Thanks to Kees Cook for the
    patch.
  * Add debian/patches/01_proc_sys_batteries.patch: Fix showing batteries
    twice. Taken from upstream git head, see patch header for details.
    (LP: #177570)

-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:09:48 +0100