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[Mari <838543@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 852406 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/852406

I do NOT think they are duplicates - or at least, the issue I am having
is not a duplicate. I am not having any issues whatsoever with it
registering a nonexistent battery, or this happening after I come back
from suspend. Firstly, my laptop never goes into suspend mode, and
second this happens to me CONSTANTLY.

It even does this directly after starting up and loading Oneiric, if my
power cord gets unplugged. It doesn't do it every single time, but 9 out
of 10 times that my cord gets pulled from or falls out of the port, my
laptop goes into hibernate (that is my power setting for low battery,
rather than standby) or shuts down completely. I have a dell laptop and
the plug does NOT like to stay in, so my laptop ends up completely
shutting down from this issue at least  twice a day, and going into
hibernate around six or eight times as much. Earlier today  my power
cord unplugged five times in thirty minutes, two times of which it
immediately shut down. It is ridiculously frustrating.

And yes, I HAVE enabled -proposed, installed all the new updates and
things that enabling it gave me, and no, it has not fixed the issue.
I've been keeping tabs on the other bug report despite the fact that I
do not believe they are duplicates, and I was really hoping that it
would fix the issue, but it seems to have made it both worse and
slightly better simultaneously.

I have a marginally better chance of my laptop not hibernating/shutting
down if I press cancel and get my laptop plugged back in fast enough,
and the first time or two it happens directly after I start up, there is
an even chance of getting no warning or anything. But now a whole new
issue has cropped up, which is that my battery life indicator is futzing
up the percentage or time of battery life I have left. This was not
happening before. So whereas before, it would tell me I had 2:05 and
100% left on my battery when it was unplugged, and I would get the
warning, now it'll tell me I have 6:00 or 0:15 or 10% left. On a fully
charged battery.

Plus, the original problem still exists: if my charger falls out of the
port on my laptop or gets unplugged, even on a full battery, a warning
pops up, tells me my battery is about to die, and then my laptop goes
into hibernate, or worse, shuts down completely. Unless I start my
laptop up unplugged my battery life has  essentially been reduced to a
minute or less.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/838543

Title:
  False battery warning +suspend

Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I pulled the plug on my laptop with it's battery full:

  ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state
  present:                 yes
  capacity state:          ok
  charging state:          charged
  present rate:            0 mA
  remaining capacity:      7200 mAh
  present voltage:         11100 mV
  ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ubuntu-bug -w
  ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info
  present:                 yes
  design capacity:         7200 mAh
  [...]

  And suddenly got a dialog saying that it was critically low (while the
  icon top-left appears, properly, as full) and the laptop did suspend
  shortly after that.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.5-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.280
  Date: Thu Sep  1 02:26:17 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110831)
  SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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