Bug 822304 - System with two batteries forces hibernate when one battery runs out, continues to force hibernate on every wakeup from suspend
Summary: System with two batteries forces hibernate when one battery runs out, continu...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: upower
Version: 20
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
urgent
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Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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: 974993 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-05-17 02:13 UTC by kat
Modified: 2015-06-29 11:38 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-06-29 11:38:50 UTC
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Description kat 2012-05-17 02:13:35 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0

I have two batteries attached to my laptop. When one battery drains fully, the system forces hibernation. (It cannot resume from hibernate, which is a separate issue.) Upon restart, the system recognizes that the second battery is charged and correctly indicates its capacity. However, if I suspend and then attempt to resume, the system notices that the first battery is drained and again forces hibernation. 

I am using a lenovo X60 with the standard battery attached in addition to the 40Y7904 extended battery; both batteries are functional.

I am happy to test fixes. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use laptop on battery power with two batteries.
2. Drain power completely from first battery.
[system hibernates]

3. Restart system. 
4. Place into suspend.
5. Resume from suspend.
[system hibernates]
Actual Results:  
System forces hibernation when one battery is drained. Works again when restarted, but when suspended, immediately forces hibernation due to low first battery upon resume from suspend.

Expected Results:  
System seamlessly begins drawing power from second battery when first battery is drained.

Comment 1 Ivan Stojmirov 2012-06-22 15:19:16 UTC
I can confirm this behavior on a brand new ThinkPad T420s with a ultrabay battery installed.

Comment 2 zingale 2013-02-16 19:19:46 UTC
I have this same problem with a T420s + ultrabay battery, but my laptop shuts down instead of hibernate.  This is with Fedora 18.

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Comment 4 kat 2013-07-12 17:23:10 UTC
This is still an issue in Fedora 19 (using a different laptop and pair of batteries than on the initial report).

Comment 5 ptg 2014-03-26 11:00:44 UTC
Also still an issue in Fedora 20. BZ 974993 is likely a duplicate of this one.  Adding the detail I added to that bug below.

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I have experienced the same problem in Fedora 17, 19, and 20 (I did not use Fedora 18, so I cannot speak to that, but my assumption would be that it existed there too).  There doesn't seem to be anyway to create a "virtual battery" to create a test case for this, but perhaps someone knows better than I.  I was hoping to recreate this issue in a virtual machine so it would be easier to detect and resolve.

The details of my setup are:
GNOME Desktop
HP ProBook 6455b laptop w/ external extended life battery (hooks on to the bottom)

This was the setup for Fedora 17, 19, and 20 alike.

acpi -V shows the following:
Battery 0: Discharging, 81%, 01:11:09 remaining
Battery 0: design capacity 4000 mAh, last full capacity 2511 mAh = 62%
Battery 1: Unknown, 95%
Battery 1: design capacity 5100 mAh, last full capacity 1283 mAh = 25%

Note that battery 0 is the external battery, which you would want to drain first.  However, if the external battery is removed, the internal battery becomes "battery 0":
Battery 0: Discharging, 94%, 00:35:15 remaining
Battery 0: design capacity 5100 mAh, last full capacity 1283 mAh = 25%

A problem like this puts more wear on a battery than normal as the usual fix is to just plug in the AC adapter which isn't good over time for a battery.  Note that no prior warning is given.  Once it drops below 5% it tells you that it will power off very soon and just does it.  Sometimes you can switch to a console, plug in the power, wait a few minutes, and then switch back and avoid the shutdown.

The only "workarounds" that I am aware of are to remove the external battery or plug in the power prior to reaching below 5%.  There have been rare cases where I have seen it hit 0% and it not immediately be a problem, but again that is not the norm.

Comment 6 ptg 2014-03-26 11:15:14 UTC
*** Bug 974993 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 ptg 2014-03-26 11:16:36 UTC
Does not appear to be Fedora-specific.  Take a look at this Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upower/+bug/379599

Changing affected version to Fedora 20, to show it has NOT been fixed.

Comment 8 ptg 2014-03-26 11:24:10 UTC
Another possible interesting behavior is that BAT0 and BAT1 shown from upower --dump do not seem to correspond to the battery #s shown on acpi -V (they are swapped).  Not sure if its relevant or not.

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path:          BAT0
  vendor:               Hewlett-Packard
  model:                Primary
  serial:               00198 2010/11/10
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Wed 26 Mar 2014 06:21:59 AM CDT (2 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               discharging
    energy:              11.6964 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         13.8564 Wh
    energy-full-design:  55.08 Wh
    energy-rate:         23.8917 W
    voltage:             12.04 V
    time to empty:       29.4 minutes
    percentage:          84%
    capacity:            25.1569%
    technology:          lithium-ion
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_AC
  native-path:          AC
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Wed 26 Mar 2014 05:39:41 AM CDT (2540 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  line-power
    online:             no

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1
  native-path:          BAT1
  vendor:               Hewlett-Packard
  model:                Travel
  serial:               09417 2010/11/15
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Wed 26 Mar 2014 06:21:44 AM CDT (17 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               discharging
    energy:              18.8996 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         37.1628 Wh
    energy-full-design:  59.2 Wh
    energy-rate:         28.5196 W
    voltage:             14.872 V
    time to empty:       39.8 minutes
    percentage:          50%
    capacity:            62.775%
    technology:          lithium-ion
  History (charge):
    1395832904  50.000  discharging
    1395832872  51.000  discharging
    1395832828  52.000  discharging
  History (rate):
    1395832904  28.520  discharging
    1395832872  24.657  discharging
    1395832834  29.097  discharging
    1395832828  25.574  discharging

Daemon:
  daemon-version:  0.9.23
  on-battery:      yes
  on-low-battery:  no
  lid-is-closed:   no
  lid-is-present:  yes
  is-docked:       no


Battery 0: Discharging, 49%, 00:42:12 remaining
Battery 0: design capacity 4000 mAh, last full capacity 2511 mAh = 62%
Battery 1: Unknown, 84%
Battery 1: design capacity 5100 mAh, last full capacity 1283 mAh = 25%

Comment 9 Josef Ludvicek 2014-07-01 07:40:33 UTC
I have the same problem with Lenovo T440s using Fedora 20 x86_64 with KDE 4.12.5.

One battery full, another about 3 %. After wake up there is few seconds and it hibernates.

With one battery drained I am unable to wake up to KDE, but gnome 3 worked without issuses.

Comment 10 James Cassell 2014-07-21 05:32:08 UTC
Same problem with the ThinkPad W520 and the external 6-cell slice battery.

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