gnome-power-manager issues with HAL reports on Asus M6Ne

[Alessandro Colaci]

Binary package hint: hal

- MY LAPTOP:
ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
M6Ne
1.0

- THE ISSUE:
Gnome power manager applet (the default one, configurable by the "power management" entry in the Gnome Preferences) is not fully working, since it seems faded out. If I add the other battery applet to the panel (from right click on the panel >> "add to panel >> system&hardware >> battery charge monitor"), I get this error message:

"Can't access ACPI events in /var/run/acpi.socket! Make sure the ACPI subsystem is working and the acpid daemon is running."

If I run:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/acpid start
 * Loading ACPI modules... [ ok ]
 * Starting ACPI services... acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy

$ sudo fuser -v /proc/acpi/event

                     USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/proc/acpi/event: haldaemon 4104 f.... hald-addon-acpi

Both the applets don't recognize when the laptop is running on battery and always show a AC plug icon.

I suppose the problem is HAL, in bug #64838 you can see another report. Related bugs are bug #64387 and bug #64646

[ketan (ketanmd)]

I have an averatec 3715-eh1 and the following worked for me

sudo /etc/init.d/acpid stop
sudo killall hald
sudo /etc/init.d/acpid start
sudo hald

the battery applet appears to work properly afterwards
though this procedure needs to be repeated on each X session restart.

looks like a bug in how the various processes startup.