Bug 1005532 - webattery fails to recognize battery
Summary: webattery fails to recognize battery
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: webattery
Version: 19
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arun S A G
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-08 07:08 UTC by Anshu Prateek
Modified: 2014-08-18 19:20 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-08-18 19:20:24 UTC
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Description Anshu Prateek 2013-09-08 07:08:25 UTC
Description of problem:

hi,

webattery fails to get the battery info on the laptop

[anshup@aero ~]$ webattery 

No Battery

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

webattery-1.2-10.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install webattery from repo
2. run webattery
3.

Actual results:

[anshup@aero ~]$ webattery 

No Battery


Expected results:


battery related output

Additional info:

relevant section from lshw

  *-battery
       description: Lithium Ion Battery
       product: DELL 4YRJH16
       vendor: Sanyo
       physical id: 1
       serial: 49
       slot: Sys. Battery Bay
       capacity: 45000mWh
       configuration: voltage=10.8V

Comment 1 Anshu Prateek 2013-09-08 07:09:17 UTC
I did a build from the sf download as well, same issue.

Comment 2 ell1e 2013-10-21 15:06:47 UTC
Same here. The program seems essentially useless. What is the protocol here, may I suggest a removal? Seems better than wasting the time of people installing it and giving it try just to see it doesn't work.

Comment 3 Arun S A G 2013-10-21 19:01:12 UTC
(In reply to Jonas Thiem from comment #2)
> Same here. The program seems essentially useless. What is the protocol here,
> may I suggest a removal? Seems better than wasting the time of people
> installing it and giving it try just to see it doesn't work.

The upstream maintainer no longer wants to maintain it. I will start the removal process. thanks

Comment 4 Arun S A G 2014-08-18 19:20:24 UTC
The package has been retired on F21.


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