Gnome Power Manager uses 100% CPU

[Dave Harton]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Hi,

I am running Ubuntu Karmic on an Inspiron 1300, and am having problems with gnome power manager using up to 100% CPU and of course everything else slows to a crawl...

I am using an OEM battery and an HP charger but still with identical ratings. It did it with the original battery too, but that was down to 40% capacity.

I first had the problem in Jaunty but I thought Hal was to blame. As Hal isn't used for this function in Karmic I decided to upgrade to the Beta, but it is having problems and driving me nuts! Under Top I have seen gnome power manager using 86% CPU by itself.

I killed the gnome power manager process and ran gnome-power-manager - - verbose and piped the output to the text file attached. In terminal it gave this output over and over again: (gnome-power-manager:17916): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: value "nan" of type `gdouble' is invalid or out of range for property `percentage' of type `gdouble'

Hope this is enough info and that you can help me.

Cheers,
Dave

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 30 20:51:02 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[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.

[mxyzptlk (mxyzptlk)]

I never had an issue with this until I installed Maverick. Now gnome-power-manager is regularly ramping my CPU up between 50% and 70% when plugged in to AC power. Unplugging it doesn't seem to help.

Running Ubuntu 10.10 (64bit) on a Lenovo IdeaPad Y510, clean install.

I did piped the same verbose command to a txt file as the above post did, and don't see the same problems, so I'm not sure what's happening here. It usually takes a couple hours, but then it's regularly using more CPU than all other applications, and causes applications I'm running to bog down or crash.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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