No warnings on low or critical battery and no hibernation

[Joe Pearson]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Karmic

I get no warnings of low or critical battery, and no hibernation happens. I've lost data on two occasions as a result.

I've changed the gconf key /apps/gnome-power-manager/general/use_time_for_policy to false, and I've changed the percentages in thresholds/ to 30/35/40; still nothing.

(The panel icon tooltip does display the correct battery percentage and remaining time, but it's just not obvious enough. OSD notifications are needed!)

Hibernate and suspend work when called directly.

I've enabled hibernation on low battery via laptop-mode-tools, and that *does* work - but it doesn't provide any notifications.

This may be a duplicate of #135548 but following suggestions in that very long bug I'm posting a new one. I am currently collecting
gnome-power-manager --no-daemon --verbose
output and will attach it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: e5c7d7742192c312f1beb1e8a9aa1bb5
CheckboxSystem: f134069bba098730d27f59b402920826
Date: Wed Mar 24 20:33:28 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

[Joe Pearson (secretcode343)]

Output of
gnome-power-manager --no-daemon --verbose >/tmp/gpm.log 2>&1

- nothing. File is empty. This is while the battery ran down from 82% to ~5% (whereupon laptop_mode triggered hibernation).

[Joe Pearson (secretcode343)]

gnome-power-manager --verbose
produces output.

gpm1.log is the output after a cold boot with no AC power attached. The right notifications were shown! At the configured 50% and 45% (these are testing values obviously) and the system hibernated at 40%.

gpm2.log is the output after charging for a while, resuming and removing AC power. It discharged to ~35% with no notifications or action.

The other difference is that I have a Logitech wireless mouse with a rechargeable battery. gpm report the power level in this (although it only has two values ... 71.4% and 14.7%). Could this interfere? It was not attached for the duration of gpm1.log but was attached for gpm2.log.

[Kieran Hogg (xerosis)]

I'm seeing this too on two 2.1 macbooks. Like you say, this bug causes data loss it's not ideal. I don't have a wireless mouse though so we can rule that one out.