battery-indicator not updated

[Chris]

When I take my (thinkpad) laptop off AC power, I hear the AC-disconnected sound, but battery-indicator is not updated. Estimation is not shown, and the icon remains unchanged, it's as if it's still on AC.

In order to restore normal operation I have to click on the icon, and click on the first menu item, so that gnome-power-statistics opens. From that point on the indicator works correctly and shows the continuously-updating estimate.

I think it only happens if I had used suspend/resume.

Sorry I don't know how to debug this, any tips? I'm not even sure if gnome-power-manager is the package responsible.

Thanks

PS: Fully updated 11.10 64-bit install. gnome-power-manager: Installed: 3.2.1-0ubuntu1

[IanH (ian-hanson4)]

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 ona Acer Netbook ZG5 and the battery icon behaviour is erratic, sometimes it detects that AC is disconnected but other times it doesn't. Today I switched on with the AC disconnected because the charger had been connected all night so the battery is fully charged but the battery indicator shows that AC is connected. The detail just states the battery is fully charged when it should state how many hours of bettery life remain.

[Chris (cmavr8)]

Hi Ian, does the indicator become active again if you run (in a terminal):
$ upower -d
?

Anyway, this issue is not a gnome-power-manager bug, but an indicator-power one. So please let's keep working on it here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-power/+bug/1008050

[IanH (ian-hanson4)]

After connection of AC and then disconnecting, the power indicator seems to work correctly. This seems to be an initialisation problem on power up, power management should check the current status of AC supply.