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gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #375260
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 375260

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Nick B. (futurepilot) wrote : Re: [Bug 375260] Re: gnome-power-manager doesn't properly detect power state

Scott Howard wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. Could you please attach the following to the report?
>
> The output of:
> dbus-monitor --session "type='signal',interface='org.freedesktop.PowerManagement'"
>
> Can you attach the file gpm.gconf.values.txt and gpm.log to this report after running:
> gconftool --recursive-list /apps/gnome-power-manager > gpm.gconf.values.txt
> /usr/share/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-bugreport &> gpm.log
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>
 dbus-monitor --session "type='signal',interface='org.freedesktop.PowerManagement'"
signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=:1.179 serial=2 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameAcquired
   string ":1.179"

Strangely I've found that if I run "cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ACAD/state" it seems to give something a poke
and it starts working properly for a while. Eventually it goes back to incorrectly reporting the power state.