Re: [gpm] Debugging gnome-power-manager

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 13:50 -0400, Nathan R. Yergler wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 on an HP DV2050 laptop, and am having problems
> with gnome-power-manager.  I was hoping to get some feedback on what
> information to include in a bug report.  
> 
> The behavior I'm seeing is demonstrated by the panel applet.  While the
> tooltip consistently reports an accurate charge level, the icon
> frequently shows an empty battery+plug, even when running on a
> completely charged battery.  The tooltip will report down to 1% of the
> battery remaining, but the low-power warning will never pop up (indeed,
> I've accidentally let it run down completely on more than one occasion
> where I wasn't paying attention).  Is there anything I should include in
> a bug report besides a description of the symptoms?

What version gnome-power-manager? If it's less than 2.16.0 you might
want to try the updated code as it fixes many bugs.

You might also want to try and get a gnome-power-manager --verbose
--no-daemon debug trace to see if the problem is being reported as a
warning.

Hope that helps,

Richard.