power manager icon on system tray doesn't indicate battery status correctly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
On Karmic (I didn't encounter this in older versions) 32 or 64 bit, gnome-power-manager icon always indicates that the battery is fully charged. Right now, I have the fully charged and plugged battery icon and the mouse hover tooltip says that the battery is fully charged. However, clicking the icon says that my battery is 11.5%. Conky and Kubuntu's battery monitor says the same.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 29 11:42:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_PH.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686
Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Hello all,
This is the same that happens to me. In particular:
When I switch on my computer using only the battery, the Battery monitor
on the tray is showing ALWAYS that the battery is fully charged.
However, making a simple click onto the monitor icon, it shows a popup
with the actual percentage of remaining battery. In this situation, if I
do not verify frequently the remaining power, the computer
just runs out of battery and halts abruptly. When restarting, I had
to fscheck the filesystems. This is very dangerous.
However, I found a "trick" while this issue is not successfully addressed.
All this changes when I simply connect the PC
to the power (just less than a second) and the monitor changes:
* A popup shows that the the battery is discharging, as well as the remaining battery percentage and the time.
* The tray icon is showing that the battery is discharging.
* The popup information when click the icon remains the same than before.
In this situation, the battery monitor shows 2 alerts: the first one
some time before running out of battery (about 9% of battery) and the
second one when only 1-2% of battery remains. In both cases, the popup
alert shows correctly the percentage of battery, but do not show the
proper remaining time (just "unknown remaining time" or so). In
contrast, in this case, the computer switch off normally (as I have set
up in the settings).
All these problems appeared when upgrading to Karmic. In the previous
ubuntu release, all worked really fine.
My hardware settings are as follows (sudo lshw):
description: Notebook 865A-86F0- 8786-881C88B289 3E
description: BIOS
capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppynec int13floppytoshiba int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int9keyboard int10video acpi usb
description: CPU 0000-0000- 0000-0000
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm cpufreq
configuration : id=0
description: Host bridge
product: HP Pavilion dv3500 Notebook PC
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version: F.15
serial: CNU9286D62
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4
configuration: boot=normal chassis=notebook uuid=801A8556-
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: 1505
vendor: Inventec
physical id: 0
version: KBC Version 13.14
serial: Base Board Serial Number
slot: Base Board Chassis Location
*-firmware
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
physical id: 0
version: F.15 (05/04/2009)
size: 1MiB
*-cpu
product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6400 @ 2.00GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 12
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.7.10
serial: 0001-067A-
slot: CPU
size: 1200MHz
capacity: 2GHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 800MHz
*-pci
product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub...