Gnome mistakes battery time to full as time to empty and triggers automatic hibernate

[Andrew Somerville]

I unplugged the power adapter from my laptop with the battery fully charged. 5 minutes later, I plugged it back in, and Gnome immediately informed me that my battery was critically low and prompted me to hibernate my system. The power manager icon in the indicator area read 7 minutes to full charge at the time.

Looks like gnome is confusing time to empty and time to full charge.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 3 23:14:11 2011
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
GnomeSessionInhibitors: None
GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110903)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 1201T
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=0cadb137-f563-48fe-be54-c4b4487f3856 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 02/02/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0317
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: 1201T
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: x.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.chassis.version: x.x
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0317:bd02/02/2010:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pn1201T:pvrx.x:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rn1201T:rvrx.xx:cvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:ct10:cvrx.x:
dmi.product.name: 1201T
dmi.product.version: x.x
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
gnome-power-bugreport: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[Andrew Somerville (andy16666)]

This bug is clearly not a duplicate of bug #531190, so I'm removing the duplicate status. This bug is specific to 11.10 and is not present in 10.04.