Created attachment 345175 [details]
messages starting May 22 AM

Description of problem:
On boot the system detected low battery and shut system off despite being attached to AC

The battery in my laptop discharged completel which I discovered this when I got to the airport this evening.  I hooked it up to AC and everything worked.  I then flew to visit my folks.  I attached the laptop to AC and booted up.  It immediately shut itself off because it determined that the battery was critically low.  I rechecked the connections and retried and the same thing happened.  I tried it a third time and same thing.  I then booted up on Windows and I had no problems.  The Windows XP power meter showed battery was 3% charged.  I let the battery charge to 10% and then rebooted F11 and this time it came up fine.  The power meter shows it is now 25% charged.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F11 with latest updates up to 5/22

How reproducible:
Happened 3 out of 3 tries when battery was below 5% charged

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Discharge laptop battery
2.Boot F11 while on AC
3.
  
Actual results:
Shuts off due to battery critically low

Expected results:
That it detects AC, remains running and begins charging battery

Additional info:
This message was in the /var/log/messages file:

May 22 20:18:48 peglaptop10 pcscd: pcscdaemon.c:580:signal_trap() Preparing for suicide

There was one of these for each of the failures.

I have attached the entries in /var/log/messages for May 22