on battery option 'when battery is critically low shutdown' is not working

[urho]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

as in headline option shutdown is not working, my laptop just uses its battery completely & stops then so no clean shutdown. Also there is no option to choose what % of battery level is 'critical'

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 4 19:05:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[vexorian (vexorian)]

Same problem here, I got 9.10 in an Acer Aspire One.

The notification bar icon gets to the point of reporting 0% of battery left yet nothing happens even when I configured it to hibernate or power off when the battery is critically low.

I checked gconf and percentage_critical is 3, tried changing to 10 and nothing happened either when the percentage got lower than 10. use_time_for_policy is false.

[HJ (hungryjoe50)]

Me too. 9.10 on an ASUS 900 netbook.

I have tried hibernate and shutdown when power critically low, but the machine just dies without warning when the battery gets low.

I get the low capacity warning on boot up too (though the battery seems fine)

I had neither of these problems with the previous release of Ubuntu (8.04)

[Marcelo do Pagode (marfcg)]

Same here. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 (consecutive system upgrade from Kubuntu 8.10->9.04->9.10) on a Positivo W95.
g-m-p also fails to inform time left, it only displays the percentage.
All worked well with Kubuntu 8.10, logged in kde or gnome.

For the record: the system hibernates normally if I click on the hibernate button.
Please let me now if there is any specific info I should provide.

[Marcelo do Pagode (marfcg)]

'devkit-power -d'

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of GNOME Power Manager is available on Maverick and we are wondering if this bug is still an issue for you with that version? Could you please test and comment back? Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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