Description of problem: If you boot your laptop with a dead battery, as soon as GDM starts an alert is raised the battery is critical and the system shuts down. This even happens if the AC is plugged in. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-power-manager-2.26.3-1.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Drain battery. 2. Boot 3. Fail. Actual results: System shutsdown. Expected results: System stays booted, it has AC power.
Already fixed in rawhide: /* check to see if the batteries have not noticed we are on AC */ if (type == DKP_DEVICE_TYPE_BATTERY) { if (!manager->priv->on_battery) { egg_warning ("ignoring critically low message as we are not on battery power"); goto out; } } So even if the battery is empty and marked as discharging, we don't do the action as the system on-battery state is FALSE. I'll look at backporting this to 2.26.4.
commit 17fd06bf0c43a9a002a3de47f4f1b9fa6457b911 Author: Richard Hughes <richard> Date: Mon Aug 3 17:11:20 2009 +0100 Backport a fix from master to fix notification on AC power
gnome-power-manager-2.26.4-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-power-manager-2.26.4-1.fc11
gnome-power-manager-2.26.4-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gnome-power-manager'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8260
This test releases acted weird for me (showed a warning icon instead of the battery etc) until I upgraded DeviceKit-power to the 010-0.2.20090721git.fc11 build.
gnome-power-manager-2.26.4-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.