Mystery solved and apologies for the invalid bug report. There was an old gnome-power-statistics in /usr/local/bin
This laptop has been updated from 12.04 to 16.04 without skipping any intermediate steps and apparently at some point I felt the need to install gnome-power-statistics manually. ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1617866 Title: gnome-power-statistics dies with " error while loading shared libraries: libupower-glib.so.1" Status in gnome-power-manager package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Using 16.04 with Unity, noticed that the battery icon does no longer give you the option to get more information with a right click. Running gnome-battery-statics from the command line gives: gnome-power-statistics: error while loading shared libraries: libupower-glib.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I have libupower-glib3 installed, which is supposed to provide libupower-glib.so To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/1617866/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp