Description of problem: Although I have set gpm to hibernate when battery is critical, and it dispatches the warning, the laptop never hibernates - power gets cut off, probably by battery safety circuits. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-power-manager-2.20.0-6.fc8.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. unplug the AC cord 2. wait Actual results: laptop dies once battery is empty Expected results: laptop hibernates prior to that Additional info: If my memory serves me well, this has been working OK in Fedora 7. I took a look at loading history, and after the warning the line got bright green (lid closed) for a while, although lid was certainly opened. Maybe the wrong event is dispatched? This seems quite serious regression, so setting it to blocker.
Works fine here. In fact I just woke this laptop up from an automatic hibernate. There's a lot of things that can go wrong with battery charge estimates, because the information from the hardware is frequently unreliable or just plain wrong - see Richard's post here: http://hughsient.livejournal.com/17018.html gnome-power-manager gets better at estimating battery life over time. This laptop used to die before hibernating, but it seems much more accurate about battery life now, and it always suspends before the battery dies. How long have you been running rawhide on your machine?
I am running rawhide here since test3. It seems that estimates are fine, since right before the laptop died gpm was showing 1% of power left, IMHO high time to hibernate (or poweroff if user chooses so). Is it possible to disable profiling? It was not present in F7 and everything was OK. Besides, the "green line issue" seems suspicious.
For reference: this is a Toshiba Satellite A100-847 laptop, aka A105 in the USA.
Created attachment 239111 [details] Power chart The issue just happened again. The led was blinking warning about low power, gpm warned the laptop was going to hibernate, but nothing happened. Take a look at the end of the curve - green colour (lid closed, but it was open all the time, and the remaining capacity going up). What is more, the tip that warned about hibernate reported 0% remaining power, which was inconsistent with what hovering over gpm icon was saying.
This still happens. Where can I find some kind of logs I could provide to fix the issue? Or disable this whole profiling thing, which clearly does not work for me?