on battery low the machine got into a suspend/resume cycle until the battery was flat

[Andy Whitcroft]

My machine was suspended with a relatively empty battery. When I came back to it in the morning it was completely dead. On inspection the machine appears to have near exhausted its battery and woken up to allow the OS to hibernate or similar. The machine has then re-suspended itself, woken due to battery, re-suspended etc repeating until the battery is dead.

My 'When power is critically low' setting is 'empty' I assume set to Hibernate which is no longer available (this is an upgrade). And the machine is set to suspend on lid close. I am therefore conjecturing the machine is woken by the low power state, has no valid action on power low, has a closed lid so it implements that. This leads to the loop.

We likely should be upgrading peoples settings if they have 'Hibernate' set to be poweroff or whatever the approved solution is.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 2 09:45:18 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-04 (118 days ago)

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

Screenshot of the power settings showing the lack of a power option.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sassan (sassanh)]

It happens to me too.