Battery is "not present" in Hardy on hp6720s

[Anton Goloborodko]

Recently I've added Hardy repositories to apt and made full update.

After that PowerManager stopped to find battery.

acpi information:

antalar@antalar:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/C23A/state
present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: discharging
present rate: 1813 mA
remaining capacity: 3424 mAh
present voltage: 11541 mV

hal information:

antalar@antalar:~$ sudo lshal | grep "battery"
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_battery_C23A'
  battery.charge_level.current = 36979 (0x9073) (int)
  battery.charge_level.design = 45306 (0xb0fa) (int)
  battery.charge_level.last_full = 45435 (0xb17b) (int)
  battery.charge_level.percentage = 81 (0x51) (int)
  battery.charge_level.rate = 19580 (0x4c7c) (int)
  battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool)
  battery.model = 'Primary' (string)
  battery.present = true (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_charging = false (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = true (bool)
  battery.remaining_time = 6798 (0x1a8e) (int)
  battery.reporting.current = 3424 (0xd60) (int)
  battery.reporting.design = 4195 (0x1063) (int)
  battery.reporting.last_full = 4207 (0x106f) (int)
  battery.reporting.rate = 1813 (0x715) (int)
  battery.reporting.technology = 'Li-ion' (string)
  battery.reporting.unit = 'mAh' (string)
  battery.technology = 'lithium-ion' (string)
  battery.type = 'primary' (string)
  battery.vendor = 'Hewlett-Packard' (string)
  battery.voltage.current = 11541 (0x2d15) (int)
  battery.voltage.design = 10800 (0x2a30) (int)
  battery.voltage.unit = 'mV' (string)
  info.capabilities = {'battery'} (string list)
  info.category = 'battery' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_battery_C23A' (string)
  battery.charge_level.current = 7 (0x7) (int)
  battery.charge_level.design = 7 (0x7) (int)
  battery.charge_level.last_full = 7 (0x7) (int)
  battery.charge_level.percentage = 100 (0x64) (int)
  battery.command_interface = 'csr' (string)
  battery.csr.has_res = false (bool)
  battery.csr.has_sms = true (bool)
  battery.csr.is_dual = false (bool)
  battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool)
  battery.present = true (bool)
  battery.type = 'mouse' (string)
  info.capabilities = {'battery'} (string list)
  info.category = 'battery' (string)

[Anton Goloborodko (antalar)]

there is the printscreen

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

Hi Anton

Did you in any case have the battery removed while the computer was booted?
If you can answer yes to this, you can discard the rest of the message.

Does the "not present" always appear, or only in certain cases? (battery removed, running on battery, running on ac)
And what was the state when the computer was booted?

Please also provide the output of the attached testscript.
Unpack the .tar.gz file. Run "python pmtest.py > gpm.log", and attach the generated gpm.log .
Please run the test both when running on ac and running on battery.

Thank you in advance.

[Anton Goloborodko (antalar)]

Hello Andreas
>Did you in any case have the battery removed while the computer was booted?
 >If you can answer yes to this, you can discard the rest of the message.

 No :)

>Does the "not present" always appear, or only in certain cases? (battery removed, running on battery, running on ac)

This state appeared always (see below) and didn't change when I pluged/unpluged AC.

>And what was the state when the computer was booted?

Usually I booted with AC plugged and battery was not detected, but I've tried just now to start without ac plugged and this time battery is detected!
Then I tried to boot again with plugged ac I battery was detected again.

So I'll attach six different log files.

Thank you.

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

Hi Anton.

Thank you very much for your logs.

I can see, that some info is missing to me in the "not-detected" case. I've attached a new version of the pmtest.py; can I have you generate a log from one of the times, that the battery isn't detected.

[Anton Goloborodko (antalar)]

Hi Andreas.

Unfortunately this bug dissapeared. :) I don't how does it happened, but after I restart without ac plugged, Power Manager started to detect battery and still do so.

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

Okay. If it should resurface, please attach a log. I'll leave this bug open, for now; and close it, if it doen't resurface in the next few days.

[Anton Goloborodko (antalar)]

Hello Andreas.

Just now I've updated all packages from local repository and battery lost again.

Here is new logs.

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

You mean, that it was lost at some point, while the packages was updated?

I know that there has been numerous hal updates the last few days; in that case the battery will disappear, but restarting g-p-m will bring the battery back. Is that the case?

[Anton Goloborodko (antalar)]

Yes it lost while packages was updated and now it's working properly.

Thanks.

[Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning)]

Then your bug is a duplicate of bug 123812 . I'm marking it as such.