Battery reported as critically low when unplugged in Maverick

[Tony Mugan]

Binary package hint: upower

On a Sony Vaio VPCM11M1E, when the power cable is unplugged a notification dialog reports that the battery is critically low even though it is fully charged. The notification applet still shows a full battery.

The dialog is titled "Power Manager" and the error reported is "Laptop battery critically low. Computer will hibernate very soon unless it is plugged in".

No other issues associated with this other than the erroneous report.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: upower 0.9.5-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Dec 22 09:53:16 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: upower

[Tony Mugan (tmugan)]

Looks like a long standing issue which is duplicated in

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/516023

[David Tombs (dgtombs)]

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 531190, 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.