power management causes system to shutdown unexpectedly

[Ed Bueche]

Binary package hint: firefox

After disconnecting the power cord a message pops up that incorrectly calculates that the laptop is about to run out of power. It says that 3 minutes are left. In many cases it just shuts down the system. The actual battery charge is 4+ hours.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 26 22:37:50 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Not a firefox issue. Needs reassignment.

[Konstantin Lavrov (lacosta)]

That could help:

You might be able to use the percentage charge for g-p-m to use as the policy data. Open gconf-editor, and then change the key /apps/gnome-power-manager/use_time_for_policy to false. You can do this easily by doing:

gconftool-2 --set --type bool /apps/gnome-power-manager/use_time_for_policy false This should get the policy actions working for you, but of course the time remaining will still be incorrect.