Ubuntu misinterprets available battery charge on laptop and shuts down in 2 minutes even with 98% charge remaining!
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu 9.04 upgraded to 9.10 on a Compaq Presario X1000 laptop with 1 Gb memory and a Centrino CPU (1.3 GHz). The problem was observed after the upgrade.
Starting from a fully charged battery, I unplug the mains power and wait. Ubuntu initially reports 100% charge. Shortly after, Ubuntu reports that the battery is critically low and will shut down in 2 minutes. When I move the mouse over the battery icon on the tool bar, the help bubble reports a 99% or 98% charge. Ubuntu does indeed shut itself down.
Kernel Linux 2.6.31-15-generic
GNOME 2.28.1
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 30 21:11:21 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.5+nobinonly
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(polkit-
(nautilus:1672): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
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