Extra battery detected which does not exist and is considered empty

[A. Bram Neijt]

After a supsend, gnome-power-manager detects a second battery which is empty. The battery shows up in the panel icon.

When I start gnome-power-statistics, from the commandline, it lists the second battery and then aborts:
$ gnome-power-statistics
(gnome-power-statistics:3634): PowerManager-DEBUG: got filename: ac-adapter;
(gnome-power-statistics:3634): PowerManager-DEBUG: got filename: gpm-battery-missing;gpm-battery-000;battery-missing;
(gnome-power-statistics:3634): PowerManager-DEBUG: got filename: gpm-battery-100-charging;battery-full-charging;
(gnome-power-statistics:3634): PowerManager-DEBUG: selected row is: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
(gnome-power-statistics:3634): PowerManager-DEBUG: selected row is: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1
**
PowerManager:ERROR:gpm-statistics.c:416:gpm_device_state_to_localised_string: code should not be reached
Aborted

Because I have suspend issues with the new Oneiric release, I had acpi_listen running in the background. This also repots a second battery:

Started Wed Oct 26 19:02:13 CEST 2011
battery BAT0 00000081 00000001
battery BAT1 00000081 00000000
battery BAT0 00000080 00000001

The E6510 laptop is notorious for it's power problems. So I would like to add that I have BIOS A10 and no extra kernel parameters at the moment.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 9acf66a3871e17f683940a81669f9f51
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Wed Oct 26 19:17:50 2011
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
GnomeSessionInhibitors: None
GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6510
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-13-generic root=UUID=d9d49fb9-bbe3-4669-9d5f-a707232955d6 ro
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/23/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A10
dmi.board.name: 0N5KHN
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A02
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA10:bd08/23/2011:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6510:pvr0001:rvnDellInc.:rn0N5KHN:rvrA02:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6510
dmi.product.version: 0001
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
gnome-power-bugreport: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Same here on a E6420, except that gnome-power-statistics runs fine (although I did see it abort at times).

Every time I resume from suspend without AC, I'm left wondering whether I'm going to hibernate in a second or not.

[Philipp Kern (pkern)]

Some more information and a link to a workaround can be found in #885722.

[trombka (trombka)]

After upgrading the system I do not experience this problem on my Dell e6320 at the moment.

gnome-power-manager 3.2.1-0ubuntu1
linux-image 3.0.0.14.16

[Michael (michaeljt)]

See also bug 531190.