Power indicator shows full battery when loading or almost empty battery

[florin]

I've just updated&upgraded the Oneiric virtual machine and I could find that the power indicator is messed up. Right now it's showing that the battery if full, but it is almost empty and I've just started recharging it. The first seconds it showed it was charging, but then it suddenly switched to "full battery" icon. I'll attach some screenshots with suggestive filenames.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: indicator-power 0.9-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 26 04:09:53 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-power
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-22 (3 days ago)

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

Hello florin, could you attach the output of "upower -d" when you see the non-desirec behaviour?
Thanks a lot

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

I just saw one of those situations: it's actually charging, the Natty (main OS, not virtual machine) and the led is showing that the laptop battery is charging, but Oneiric's power indicator shows that's it is not. See screenshot; I'll attach the command output as a file.

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

And the upower -d output.

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

Mmmm, seems that you are using a old version of the indicator (there is a tiny gap between "Battery" and its icon in the menu: that's bug #844006 and It was fixed in the current 0.9 version)
Could you check that you are using the latest version of indicator-power, thanks a lot!

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

I have no idea about how to check the version of the indicator, please let me know how to do that as I guess it's usefull to know. I remember having the updated + dist-upgraded + restarted the virtual machine before reporting the bug.

I have a later update of gnome-power-manager, I don't know if it's related. BTW, since last upgrade of today, the clock dissapeared from upper bar. I'll have another upgrade right now, I'll let you know if I encounter this bug again.

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

> I have no idea about how to check the version of the indicator

Use this: apt-cache show indicator-power | grep Version

> I have a later update of gnome-power-manager, I don't know if it's related.
Nope, Its not related

Thanks for all the info!

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

apt-cache show indicator-power | grep Version
Version: 0.9-0ubuntu1

Now I have no battery indicator in top bar.

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

BTW, as you could see in the bug report, it's the same version:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: indicator-power 0.9-0ubuntu1

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

This is really odd, are you sure that the upower -d data comes from the oneiric machine?
Also, a kernel update some days ago seems to mess the power managment here, but seems to be fixed with the latest updates. Could you try again?

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

Oh, I am pretty sure. You can check it yourself in the attached screenshot with all information.

Maybe I will install it from zero, who knows if the installation is not corrupt from all the repeated updates and upgrades. But if it is, then also clean installs could be and it is not a happy thing not to rely on update&dist-upgrade.

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

I could see people are very sceptical when I offer to allow them temporary remote control over my computer, but I make the same offer to you if this can help you figure it out what the problem is.

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

I was right: I installed a fresh Oneiric from daily live cd from 30th of September and this bug is gone. I guess the bug was from the update&upgrade process; something did not went right in the dozens of updates&dist-upgrades since the beta 1 installation I had here.

Thanks for the attention and sorry for this, maybe the update&upgrade process should be watched a little bit.