UNR Karmic, EeePC 701: notification on login that battery is at 1.9% and may be broken irrespective of actual charge of battery, as indicated by battery charge applet
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: notify-osd
On login on an EeePC 701 running UNR Karmic, a notification bubble appears in the top right of the screen saying: "Battery may be broken: your battery has a very low capacity (1.9%), which means that it may be old or broken." This is contradicted by the battery load applet on the top panel that show the actual charge of the battery. The fact that the netbook happily runs several hours on battery confirms that the battery charge applet is correct while the notification is not. See attached PDF annotated screen shot that demonstrates the bug.
This behaviour only started in Karmic. It was working properly in Jaunty. The bogus notification always says "1.9%", irrespective of the actual battery charge.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Log in to Ubuntu Netwbook Remix 9.10
Actual behaviour:
A notification immediately appears saying "Battery may be broken: your battery has a very low capacity (1.9%), which means that it may be old or broken." The battery charge applet on the top panel shows the actual battery charge.
Expected behaviour:
No notification should appear as the battery is fully working as confirmed by the battery charge applet and the fact that the netbook can run on battery for as long as when it was new.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 7 11:56:40 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
GtkTheme: Dust
IconTheme: Humanity-Dark
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 701
Package: notify-osd 0.9.24-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
RelatedPackageV
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
xserver-
xserver-
SourcePackage: notify-osd
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686
WindowManager: gnome-wm
dmi.bios.date: 03/03/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0910
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 701
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: x.xx
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTek Computer INC.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: 701
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
This also appears on the eeepc 900 model. Exact same behavior.