There is no option to "do nothing" when power is critically low (11.10).

[Roland (Rolandixor) Taylor]

The only options provided are hibernate and shutdown. "Do nothing" should be allowed, especially for situations where hibernation would not work, and also for calibrating the battery (which requires being able to have the system "do nothing".

[Roland (Rolandixor) Taylor (rolandixor)]

I forgot to add, it should also allow "shut down".

[Roland (Rolandixor) Taylor (rolandixor)]

Oops, I got the options mixed up, it is "hibernate" and "suspend", but the bug still applies.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[X181 (olag-2)]

This bug affects all users with broken batteries.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #736606, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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[Cas (calumlind)]

This bug is not a duplicate as it is a distinctly different option.

Bug #736606 refers to Lid Close behaviour and I think should be closed as Do Nothing now exists in the power manager options.

This bug refers to Battery Critically Low behaviour.

[Domen Kožar (ielectric+)]

In GConf: /apps/gnome-power-manager/actions/critical_battery -> "nothing"