[Bug 629258] Re: Battery life estimation never comes around
Hi Mohegan. I too saw the double reporting of battery status, when I first installed 11.04. However, I saw it *before* I'd installed the patched upower, so I don't think it's related to that (unless you tell me that you only had one line *until* you installed the patch). The thing is, the patch affects upower and the data that it reports -- but the icon belongs to gnome-power-manager, which reads the upower data and draws the graphs and things -- and is nothing to do with upower per se. Unless you can definitely identify the behaviour as coming from the patched upower, I'd be tempted to file a new bug under gnome-power- manager. If it's any help, the double reporting seemed to go away for me as soon as I installed all the latest package updates, though as I said, that was before I'd installed the upower patch. andy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to a duplicate bug report (38795). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629258 Title: Battery life estimation never comes around To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/devicekit-power/+bug/629258/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 629258] Re: Battery life estimation never comes around
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/natty/upower -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to a duplicate bug report (38795). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629258 Title: Battery life estimation never comes around To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/devicekit-power/+bug/629258/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 629258] Re: Battery life estimation never comes around
This bug is still present in Natty. Sorry, I can't get LauchPad to add natty/upower as a new target for this bug - maybe somebody more au fait with launchpad can do that. I have, however, examined tested my earlier patch (for upower on 10.10) against upower-0.9.9 that ships with Natty, and it checks out and works fine. Hence, I attach a .deb with the i386 binary of my patched upower, plus the source. If somebody wants to also compile for amd64 architecture and add to their PPA (like they did with the earlier patch) to aid distribution, then I'd be thankful - I don't have time for this. I also see a lot of comments about upstream patches and the need to re- enable the disabled code - this patch does exactly that - fixes the broken estimation code and re-enables it. I don't have time to do it myself, but if somebody wants to commit my patch back up to the ubuntu upower project, then this bug would be fixed for everybody. ** Attachment added: dsc debian source file + auxillaries, original source not included https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upower/+bug/629258/+attachment/2181519/+files/upower_0.9.9-4eyre1.tar.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to a duplicate bug report (38795). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629258 Title: Battery life estimation never comes around To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/devicekit-power/+bug/629258/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 629258] Re: Battery life estimation never comes around
** Attachment added: upower_0.9.9-4eyre1_i386.deb https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upower/+bug/629258/+attachment/2181525/+files/upower_0.9.9-4eyre1_i386.deb -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to a duplicate bug report (38795). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629258 Title: Battery life estimation never comes around To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/devicekit-power/+bug/629258/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 629258] Re: Battery life estimation never comes around
Yes. Attached. ** Patch added: upower_0.9.9-4eyre1.debdiff https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upower/+bug/629258/+attachment/2181528/+files/upower_0.9.9-4eyre1.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to a duplicate bug report (38795). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629258 Title: Battery life estimation never comes around To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/devicekit-power/+bug/629258/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 629258] Re: Battery life estimation never comes around
Hey Guys I don't know whether gpm continually showing estimating when upower is giving it null information is a *bug* or not, but the fundamental problem is a bug in upower, not a bug in gpm. upower-0.9.5 incorrectly gives null battery runtime information when it can't get a electrical current reading from the hardware. There is code in upower-0.9.5 to guess the battery runtime information in the absence of a current reading, but that code is broken. Hence gpm is continually reporting estimating, waiting for a upower runtime estimate that it will never receive. I've patched the upower code, albeit in a fairly ugly way. I don't have time to neaten this up - somebody can fix it upstream if they choose, or perhaps neaten it up for an ubuntu-specific patch. The patched upower code enables upower to estimate the battery runtime, in the absence of a current reading. It takes a few minutes for the battery charge state to move enough that an estimate can take place. On my HP Mini 210 netbook, with this version of upower, gpm now estimates the battery runtime and battery charge time, to within ballpark-correct periods. Anyway, a .deb of the hacked upower can be found at: https://sites.google.com/site/andyeyre/files/upower_0.9.5-4eyre1_i386.deb?attredirects=0d=1 Tarball of source and diffs: https://sites.google.com/site/andyeyre/files/upower_0.9.5-4eyre1-source.tgz?attredirects=0d=1 Checksums: bb27c7d58a4f6e69f48b331876de981b upower_0.9.5-4eyre1_i386.deb 3ade6e99b525f037ce5499a5dd58d1d6 upower_0.9.5-4eyre1-source.tgz ** Package changed: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) = upower (Ubuntu) -- Battery life estimation never comes around https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629258 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
