Notifications stopped working

[Mathieu Pillard]

A recent gnome-power-manager upgrade seems to have supressed the notification messages. It does detect that I switched to battery, changes the luminosity, but doesn't display notifications at all.

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

% apt-cache policy gnome-power-manager
gnome-power-manager:
  Installed: 2.13.91-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.13.91-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.13.91-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

This is the output of gnome-power-manager --verbose --no-daemon.
Although it says 'Already notified' at some point, no notification was shown. I can still see notifications from other programs such as update-notifier, though.

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

Your battery does not identify itself as charging quick enough for the notification not to invalidate.
Can you try the attached patch please, and tell me if it works, and if it breaks any of the other notifications.
Thanks.

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

FWIW, both gnome-power-manager and the Battery Charge Monitor applet seem to be taking like ~30 seconds to notice I unplugged AC. This is a recent regression for me, as it used to be instantaneous not so long ago.

Compiling gnome-power-manager with your patch right now, will post results.

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

The patch does seem to work. My previous comment still stands, even though it might be an ubuntu only issue (and a problem with my installation, this laptop went to pre-warty to dapper, using every release in between, so there might be old acpi scripts or whatever slowing it down)

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

I've just committed this to CVS:

2006-02-24 Richard Hughes <email address hidden>
 * src/gpm-manager.c (power_on_ac_changed_cb): Invalidate the warning levels for primary battery when the AC is removed. NOTE: we still rely on the battery to begin discharging before we issue the warning in case our power source is UPS. Should start to fix #332322.

It could be your battery falls into the last case, where it doesn't notice it's discharging for a few seconds. You should probably file this as a HAL bug if I'm correct. Richard.

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

With latest gnome-power-manager from dapper it's now working, and I can reproduce the 30 seconds lag any more. That bug is fixed.

[Daniel Silverstone (dsilvers)]

user states this is fixed in 2.13.92-0ubuntu1