No icon is shown if started while charging, whatever the icon policy is

[Mathieu Pillard]

I've set the notification area icon to "always show". However, if I start gnome-power-manager while my battery is not full and charging, the icon fails to show. Relevant part of the log:

get_stock_id] gpm-manager.c:248 (00:35:38): Getting stock icon for tray
[get_stock_id] gpm-manager.c:320 (00:35:38): no devices (dis)charging, so no icon will be displayed.
[tray_icon_update] gpm-manager.c:361 (00:35:38): Going to use stock id: (null)
[tray_icon_update] gpm-manager.c:382 (00:35:38): no icon will be displayed

I found this bug while testing the patch for malone bug 32644. However I've test with and without the patch and it didn't make any difference: to have the icon to show I had to unplug AC.

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

% apt-cache policy gnome-power-manager
gnome-power-manager:
  Installed: 2.13.91-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.13.91-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
     2.13.91-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
 *** 2.13.91-0ubuntu2 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Daniel Silverstone (dsilvers)]

Are you *certain* that the icon policy was set to 'always' ?

The 'no devices (dis)charging' message is only ever displayed if icon policy is 'charge'

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

I was about to say that I am, but I checked again and it was set to "charge". Sorry about not noticing this, I'm certain I never changed the policy, so I assumed it was set to "always" and didn't check, my mistake.

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

Ok actually, it's still a bug: I was charging at that time, even if the log exerpt doesn't say so, so it should have displayed an icon. I'll post a more complete log.

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

>I was charging at that time, even if the log exerpt doesn't say so

Does lshal report the battery as charging?

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

I managed to reproduce this on my laptop using these simple instructions:

gnome-power-manager:
  Installed: 2.13.92-0ubuntu1

* set gnome-power-manager to display icon when (dis)charging.
* unplug AC
* kill gnome-power-manager
* plug AC back. battery should, and is charging
* start gnome-power-manager
* icon is not shown.

the gnome battery applet showes the battery as charging, and lshal reports the battery as charging as well:
* battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = false (bool)
* battery.rechargeable.is_charging = true (bool)

If I unplug the AC once more, but this time while gnome-power-manager is up, the notification is shown and icon appears (exhibiting bug , because I think the icon appears after the notification - but I'll add that to the other bug). And if I plug the AC back I do get the icon.

Bottom line: if battery is charging (and only charging, discharging does show the icon) before gnome-power-manager is launched, the icon doesn't appear.

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

Looks like g-p-m wasn't aware of the fact that my battery is charging. Which is funny since the percentage does go up:)

% lshal | grep charging
  battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = false (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_charging = true (bool)

[Daniel Silverstone (dsilvers)]

Can you please confirm if this behaviour persists in 2.13.92-0ubuntu1 ?

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

Yes, it does. See my comment before the verbose output attachement.

[Jonathon Conte (thesicktwist)]

I'm running Dapper Testing on an IBM T41 Thinkpad and I'm experiencing this problem as well. Gnome-Power-Manager appears to be functioning because the brightness of the screen changes automatically when the AC adapter is plugged-in or removed. However, no icon appears in the Notification Area applet whether I'm using the battery or AC adapter.

If I start the Gnome Power Manager configuration utility (System-->Preferences-->Power Management) then the icon appears as soon as the window opens and it remains visible after I close the window.

The gnome-power-manager package that I have installed is version 2.13.92+CVS20060302-0ubuntu1.

[Zack Cerza (zcerza-deactivatedaccount)]

With the latest uprgade to 2.14.0-1 (I rebooted), the icon doesn't show. The policy is set to 'always show'. My battery is fully charged.

charging state: charged

Opening gnome-power-preferences does not make the icon show up; toggling between 'never show' and 'always show' does.

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

Zack, when it gets in this "funny" state where the icon doesn't show when it should, can you get the output of gnome-power-manager --verbose --no-daemon please. Thanks.

[Jason Lu (pinchaoit)]

I am running dapper beta on an IBM Thinkpad T41 and have the exact symptom. The icon doesn't show up upon startup. If I go to System ==> Preference ==> Power Management and toggle between 'never show' and 'alway show', the icon shows up.

Here is the output after I ran
gnome-power-manager --verbose --no-daemon:

_IceTransOpen: Unable to Parse address

(gnome-power-manager:8760): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Could not open network socket.
[gpm_debug_init] gpm-debug.c:130 (22:11:03): Verbose debugging enabled
*** WARNING ***
[main] gpm-main.c:219 (22:11:03): Unable to determine the address of the message bus
GNOME Power Manager has encountered a non-critical warning.
Consult http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gnome-power-manager for any known issues or a possible fix.
Please file a bug with this complete message if not present

[Mathieu Pillard (diox)]

FWIW I have been unable to reproduce this bug lately, I don't know what update fixed it if its fixed, though.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Last comment was 2006 with a fixed, so I'm marking this bug as fixed. Please reopen if it is still an issue.

Thanks for helping. Ted.