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gnome-power-manager package

Gnome Power Manager does not detect battery

Bug #428500 reported by Chris Irwin
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Akash Israni

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

After removing and re-inserting the battery gpm's notification icon did not return. After enabling the icon to be always visible (instead of only when battery present) the icon provides no information on my battery and seems to think I'm just running off AC all the time (even when running on battery).

If I go to "Power History" from the context menu, the battery is visible with the correct State. The state is also updated as I plug/unplug AC.

Killing and running a new gnome-power-manager provides battery info again.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 12 12:58:56 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.27.92-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64

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Chris Irwin (chrisirwin) wrote :
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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote : apport-collect data

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.27.92-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
UserGroups: sudo

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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote : Dependencies.txt
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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote : DevkitPower.txt
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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote : GConfNonDefault.txt
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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote : gnome-power-bugreport.txt
tags: added: apport-collected
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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote :

Thank you for filing this bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better, I was able to confirm this as well on the latest Karmic. I think there is enough information here for a developer to have a look at it so I will mark it as Triaged and let them handle it from here.
Cheers.

Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
tags: added: i386
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Hari Kotcherlakota (harik-email) wrote :

I see the same problem.

When I power on the machine without ac adapter, the power manager thinks that there is AC adapter.
If I connect and remove the AC adapter, the battery icon appears and the status is correct.

Machine Toshiba Satellite A215-S7416

uname -a
Linux hari-laptop 2.6.32-10-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 7 17:38:40 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

Release 10.04 (Lucid) Alpha2 followed by all available updates as of now.
GNOME 2.29.24
Memory: 1.8GiB

Processor 0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-53
Processor 1: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-53

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Hari Kotcherlakota (harik-email) wrote :

A bit more info to add.

I noticed that process gnome-power-manager was sleeping.

I made it continue (System Monitor). It showed battery status correctly.

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tralala28 (tralala28) wrote :

I have the exact same problem on my Dell.

I won't describe what happens on my pc again because it's just like "Hari Kotcherlakota" described in his comment #8

- Dell Inspiron 14" 7437
- Running Kubuntu 14.04.1 LTS AMD64
- Linux Inspiron-7437 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
- All updates installed

Akash Israni (akashrisranii)
Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Akash Israni (akashrisranii)
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