Spurious "Battery may be broken" dialog at login

[Ilmari Vacklin]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

I'm getting a "Battery may be broken" dialog on login on current Karmic, on a EEE 900. I think this has been happening on every boot since I installed Karmic alpha 6. The battery is usually nearly full, but the dialog claims it is at 1.9%.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 27 19:54:29 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[Stéphane Scot (stephane-chloste)]

It's been happening for longer than alpha 6. I think it started for me the first alpha version of Karmic I tried (3).

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

Isn't that bug only a consequence of bug #434251 ?

[wjverwijlen (w-verwijlen)]

Same problem here, also on an Eee PC900 and Karmic (final release). I think it's different from the wrong time estimation (though that occurs as well) since it gives me this message every single time at login.

[tonhou (tony-houlbrooke-gmail)]

I have the same dialogue appearing every start with 2 eeepc 701 4G netbooks. Is there no way to disable it at this point?

[Artūras Šlajus (x11-arturaz)]

Same here with eee701. Battery is just fine actually.

[Neoprenanzug (raketenforscher)]

Same here with Eee 701 4G. Battery is actually NOT broken.

[Dave (davemattocks)]

tonhou wrote on 2009-12-24: #5

I have the same dialogue appearing every start with 2 eeepc 701 4G netbooks. Is there no way to disable it at this point?

Try this:
http://linux.aldeby.org/get-rid-of-your-battery-may-be-broken-notification.html

[Oliver Gerlich (ogerlich)]

Isn't this a duplicate of bug 403303 ?