Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Dell Latitude CPx laptop. Initially running FC2 for several years, recently upgraded to FC5 (clean install). gnome-power-manager-2.14.0-1 Currently in failed state. Battery monitor indicates system is on AC power only and does not see battery. Prior to this battery monitor was not reporting correct status of battery. Initially thought the battery was starting to fail so replaced battery with new one. Did have battery indication for a couple of days. However was getting strange estimates of battery life. At one point battery monitor was indicating 36 hours of battery life remaining when AC power was disconnected. Subsequently it was indicating a more typical 2.5 to 3 hours of battery life for fully charged battery. This morning the battery monitor is showing only the AC connection, no battery icon is shown. Mar 26 14:16:03 discsander kernel: ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present) Did not find any other relavent message in log file. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Running laptop for several days connected to AC power 2. Battery monitor not reporting correct status 3. Actual results: Battery monitor no longer sees battery or reports incorrect status. Expected results: Correct status of battery is reported. No problems with FC2 install on same equipment. Additional info:
Can you attach a lshal please.
Created attachment 126833 [details] Requested information from lshal Requested info from lshal command.
Looks okay to me, what do you do to reproduce the problem? Also, what about a g-p-m verbose trace? See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-power-manager/bugs.html for more details. Thanks.
Created attachment 127031 [details] Second lshal file. Problem happened again. Attaching a second lshal dump. Problem happened again today. Only the AC power icon is showing in the panel. System does not appear to see the battery. System was running over night connected to AC power.
Created attachment 127034 [details] Output from gnome-power-manager --no-daemon --verbose Attaching requested info from gnome-power-manager --no-daemon --verbose Had to kill the daemon version to get this one to run. If that is not the correct procedure let me know how you want this info collected. If I reboot the system this will operate correctly for a period of time.
Both batteries have: battery.present = false so g-p-m thinks you are on AC Power. Did you remove both batteries? If not this is a HAL or kernel error, not a g-p-m error.
The battery has not been removed, the system stops seeing it after some period of time. In that case this bug should be reclassified as a HAL or kernel error. What information is needed to track it down in those parts of the system?
Probably a HAL error, I agree. Can you provide a HAL debug trace please.
Created attachment 127079 [details] Output of hal trace. Attached output of hal trace. Please note that the option in the web page --retain-privileges does not work with the current version of hal. Also note that the laptop was rebooted and currently shows the battery and AC power icon. I will attach a hal trace the next time the problem happens.
Created attachment 127768 [details] Output of hald trace after problem happens. Hald trace while problem is showing.
>The battery has not been removed, the system stops seeing it after some period I have to wait at least 30 seconds before may battery is "seen" by acpi after I remove it, perhaps the removal of the battery triggers something weird with acpi. After looking at the hald trace, this looks like a kernel problem, not a hal problem.
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