I can confirm the regression on my ubuntu up-to-date 8.10 64bit on a dell xps m1330. I can also confimrm the behaviour described by arturj in comment 104. For me as well raising the critical action threshold to at least 360 seconds was working as a workaround in ubuntu 8.04.
No bios updates happend in the mean time. -- [Gutsy] Action on critical battery isn't triggered - regression https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135548 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
