gnome-power-manager does nothing when my battery runs out

[Thomas Novin]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

I have set gnome-power-manager to suspend to ram when battery reaches critical level. However, nothing happens.

I have two batteries in /proc/acpi/batteries but only one present.

This is how it looked just before the system ran out of battery completely:

/proc/acpi/battery/C1BE/info
present: yes
design capacity: 4137 mAh
last full capacity: 4137 mAh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 14400 mV
design capacity warning: 207 mAh
design capacity low: 42 mAh
capacity granularity 1: 100 mAh
capacity granularity 2: 100 mAh
model number: Primary
serial number: 02847 2006/09/26
battery type: LIon
OEM info: Hewlett-Packard

/proc/acpi/battery/C1BE/state
present: yes
capacity state: critical
charging state: discharging
present rate: 1371 mA
remaining capacity: 0 mAh
present voltage: 14107 mV

I have read bug 135548 but I'm not sure this is the same because there is a workaround there to set use_time_policy to false and that has no effect on my setup.

I have a HP nc8430 laptop

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

$ gconf-editor
thnov@pc-thnov-ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l | grep gnome-power-manager
ii gnome-power-manager 2.21.1-0ubuntu1 frontend for gnome-powermanager
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
$ uname -a
Linux pc-thnov-ubuntu 2.6.24-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:40:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, please take a look to http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager to see which information you have to submit in order to get the bug fixed, thanks.