Comment 1 for bug 298902

This happens for me too, and has happened for me since dapper. I've always run Kubuntu, I'm not sure it that's relevant.

Other related behaviour is that in 8.10, powerdevil hibernates when the battery level is critical, but sometimes it takes longer than expected (ie. "will suspend to disk in ten seconds" disappears, and hibernate doesn't start for another 30). In this case, I sometimes manually hibernate, hoping to avoid completely depleting my battery. The last time I did this, I plugged in before booting, and then booted. immediately after resuming from hibernation, the coputer immediately hibernated again.

I Propose these changes to behaviour:
- After one task begins a hibernation/sleep/shutdown/reboot process, all subsequent such tasks are immediately cancelled, or not allowed to start.
- No hibernation/sleep/shutdown/reboot processes may start within 5 (or 3?) minutes of resuming from sleep or hibernation. This would allow the user to save any documents open before the computer runs the critical battery task (ie. hibernation, or shutdown)