Description of problem: g-p-m would incorrectly claim that the laptop's battery is broken, and fails to display the notification icon after that. Other functionalities (e.g. brightness keys) still work, but suspend/resume is no longer possible, either through the Main Menu or through the g-p-m systray icon (since it is not displayed, it cannot be right-clicked) Going to try booting the -16 kernel revision and see if the problem was already present there; AFAIR it worked just fine yesterday. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.29-21.fc11.x86_64 gnome-power-manager-2.26.0-1.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Unplug AC adapter 2. killall gnome-power-manager && gnome-power-manager (tried with --verbose --no-daemon too; no difference) 3. Repeat with AC adapter plugged Actual results: The following pop-up notice is given in both (2) and (3): """ Battery may be broken Your battery has a very low capacity 69%), which means that it may be old or broken. """ After that, the notification icon is not shown. Expected results: Should work as usual, regardless of whether g-p-m detects a broken battery or not Additional info: [michel@erdos BAT0]$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info present: yes design capacity: 5200 mAh last full capacity: 4798 mAh battery technology: rechargeable design voltage: 11100 mV design capacity warning: 520 mAh design capacity low: 157 mAh capacity granularity 1: 52 mAh capacity granularity 2: 52 mAh model number: DELL WR0478 serial number: 15776 battery type: LION OEM info: Samsung SDI [michel@erdos BAT0]$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: charging present rate: 997 mA remaining capacity: 4500 mAh present voltage: 12537 mV
Tried DeviceKit-power 006-3, 007-2 and 008-0.1.20090401git; the same problem occurs with all of them. So there are two separate problems: 1. The battery is incorrectly reported as broken (/proc/acpi/battery indicates a working battery, and the charging level is definitely > 69 %) 2. If a battery is broken, g-p-m does not have an icon for it so if the user missed the initial warning, they would not be aware of the problem
False alarm; the 008 git snapshot works, but only after restarting the computer.