gnome power manager drops laptop battery from 100% to 74% in 10 seconds

[Chris Gregan]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Build Version/Date: gnome-power-manager 2.27.1
Environment used for testing: Karmic, Dell M1330

Summary:
When switching from AC to Battery power, gnome power manager tells me my system has 9h of battery power at 100% charged, to 3h 55m at 74% charged within 10 seconds of unplugging from AC.

I have a feeling 3h 44m is closer to the truth time-wise, but the % calculation appears to be off.

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Plug system into AC
2) When power manager shows 100% charged unplug
3) Hover pointer over power manager panel icon

Expected result:
After unplugged power manager shows correct estimated time at 100%

Actual result:
Power manager miscalculates time when at 100% then when the correct time is estimated, shows the wrong percentage.

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please attach the resulting log file of:
/usr/share/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-bugreport &> gpm.log

to the report? You might also want to take a look to the Debugging instructions located at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager for submit any other logs related to your problem.Thanks in advance.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

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". Thanks again!