Gnome-power-manager not recognizing battery

Gnome-power-manager seems to act as if I have no battery whatsoever, and, when I am on battery power, keeps saying that I am running on AC power, despite the fact that both typing "acpi" into a terminal and the battery monitor applet give the correct state. I do have the dbus and acpid daemons running (they're in my rc.conf), and my laptop is an Acer Aspire 3618AWLCI.
Does anyone know what I could do? I would much rather use gnome-power manager than the batter monitor applet.

I realized that my problem since the update is that hald crashes after the session is launched. noamsml, did you check that hald is running on your laptop ?
Last edited by vlaaad (2007-02-05 14:17:04)

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[Solved] Systemd - Overrides settings of Gnome-Power-Manager?

Hello!
I've always used the following to lines to tell Gnome-Power-Manager not to suspend my laptop, when the lid is closed:
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action 'blank'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-battery-action 'blank'
I remember a huge (and regular...) discussion around Gnome 3, because the developers resisted to re-implemented a button for this in the UI of Gnome3. Well, the two lines above done their job all the time. Since the last update of Systemd this seems to be ignored:
Oct 09 01:19:58 cupcake systemd-logind[273]: Lid closed.
Oct 09 01:19:58 cupcake systemd-logind[273]: Suspending...
Oct 09 01:19:58 cupcake systemd[1]: Starting Sleep.
Oct 09 01:19:58 cupcake systemd[1]: Reached target Sleep.
Oct 09 01:19:58 cupcake systemd[1]: Starting Suspend...
Is anyone other affected? Looks like a real problem for me. If I close the lid I want to close my lid, nothing more an especially not suspend
/var/log/pacman.log
[2012-10-08 21:59] upgraded systemd (193-1 -> 194-1)
[2012-10-08 21:59] upgraded systemd-sysvcompat (193-1 -> 194-1)
Last edited by hoschi (2012-10-08 23:53:06)

pablox wrote:
hoschi wrote:
Nope. Found it five minutes ago. My shame! Thank you
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … th_systemd
This is driving me crazy. I've read the article, but I still don't understand what I'm supposed to do. I have tried changing values from logind.conf *IgnoreInhibited to yes to no, but the laptop still suspend when the lid is closed .
All you need to do is set HandleLidSwitch=ignore in logind.conf, this will make systemd ignore the lid switch completely, and leave gnome to handle it. Its pretty self explanatory... You can also set the other similar options to ignore, like HandlePowerKey, HandleSuspendKey, HandleHibernateKey if you want only gnome to handle them.
Last edited by bwat47 (2012-10-10 22:02:54)

Gnome-power-manager 2.26 does not suspend on idle

I got a problem with gnome-power-manager 2.26 (several Versions 2.26.0 2.26.1 2.26.2 (original PKGBUILD)). I can suspend from the applet menu. It does hibernate on critical bat level, but i does not suspend on idle, regardless what timeout values I set in screensaver and gnome-power-manager. Display sleep seems to work though. First I thought, this might be only an issue on my particular notebook, as I could not find anything on google about this, but it is the same behavior on my freshly installed desktop system.
gnome-power-manager --verbose outputs nothing about going to standby.
I built gnome-power-manager and gnome-screensaver from 2.24 and they do work porperly, except the notebook will not hibernating on crit bat level.
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Desktop: GB AMD 790XT, Phenom 720, Nvidia GTX 260
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Might this be an Policy issue? Nevertheless if anyone out there has has this problem, let me know and i am goning to file a bug report.

uwinkelvos wrote:I filed a bugrepoert about this: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15038
anyone willing and able to have a look at the sources is welcome... i just do not have the skills and tools to get to the right conclusion.
is a well know upstream problem. you should have been fill/comment on bugzilla bugtracker because is not archlinux fault.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?q … r-manager+
http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/05/ … tableness/

Pm-suspend quirks works - not gnome power manager

I installed Arch on my Thinkpad R61 once before, but the suspend 2 ram stuff didn't work. Well, I installed again with the goal of figuring it out, and I did. If I add the line
DISPLAY_QUIRK_S3_BIOS="true"
to /etc/pm/config.d/config
Then type sudo pm-suspend in the console and my computer gracefully goes to sleep and wakes up exactly how it should. However if I try to make my computer sleep through any other method, such as closing the lid or pressing the sleep button (Fn+F4) or using the gnome power icon, I just get the screen saver login window and when I return to the main desktop I see "Sleep Problem' popup from the gnome power icon. I'm wondering if there is another file I need to configure to make it all work. I'm really close and this is the last issue I have to solve to have a perfectly working arch install on my laptop, which would make me happy!

same problem here..
Acer 5920G T7300, Nvidia 8600GT, Intel 3945abg wifi card..running standard 2.6.25-ARCH from testing
if I call "sudo pm-suspend" from the console, it works without problems
if I try to suspend from the gnome-power-manager icon, it get me to the screen saver, and the "Sleep Problem" message popups.
I have only installed pm-utils, and made the "resume=/path/to/swap" modify in grub's menu.lst .. no other configs or modifications made by me..
edit I've just tried hibernate (sudo pm-hibernate) and it works fine too.. obviously it doesn't work by the gnome-power-manager icon.
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How do I get gnome-power-manager working with standalone Openbox?

I'm brand new to Arch, so sorry if this is a dumb question that's already been answered. I'm installing on a Thinkpad T410, and I want a battery icon in my system tray. I've installed Openbox as a standalone window manager, and I'm using tint2 for a panel and system tray. I need something in my system tray to show my battery status.
I've looked around, and I don't really see any alternative to gnome-power-manager (I looked at trayfreq and batterymon), so I'm attempting to use that. I've installed it, but if I try to run it from a terminal I get this:
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n1md4 wrote:This solution worked for me too. I run a vanilla openbox install. Although I now have the battery icon in the panel, when selecting preferences, nothing loads. Any ideas?
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Where has gnome-power-manager gone?

I'm using Xmonad (without Gnome) and installed gnome-power-manager to manage the battery on my laptop. I can't find the binary:
[me@laptop ~]$ pacman -Ss gnome-power-manager
extra/gnome-power-manager 3.2.0-1 (gnome-extra) [installed]
Power management tools.
[me@laptop ~]$ gnome-<tab>
gnome-autogen.sh gnome-power-statistics
gnome-doc-common
[me@laptop ~]$ which gnome-power-manager
which: no gnome-power-manager in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin/core_perl)
Perhaps there were some wild and crazy changes due to Gnome 3? How do I find/use this thing?
EDIT: After looking at "Package Contents" list on the package page:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … r-manager/
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Last edited by oops (2011-10-11 22:44:35)

pacman -Ql gnome-power-manager
will show you all the files within that package.
pacman -Ql gnome-power-manager | grep /bin/
should find some binaries.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FA … tart_it.3F
Seems there's only /usr/bin/gnome-power-statistics.
Last edited by karol (2011-10-11 22:45:26)

[SOLVED] gnome-power-manager issues since update?

Since maybe an update (I'm not sure), gnome-power-manager isn't launched anymore. No battery applet, suspend and hibernation buttons.
acpid, pm-utils are on.
By launching it in terminal, it gives:
~$ gnome-power-manager
(gnome-power-manager:3238): libupower-glib-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127
TI:17:42:09 TH:0x10cf090 FI:gpm-engine.c FN:gpm_engine_coldplug_idle_cb,834
- failed to get device list: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127
Traceback:
gnome-power-manager() [0x419a64]
gnome-power-manager() [0x41904e]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x1f3) [0x7f72b683abf3]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x423d0) [0x7f72b683b3d0]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x182) [0x7f72b683ba42]
gnome-power-manager() [0x40f11b]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f72b6239c3d]
gnome-power-manager() [0x407a49]
So would libupower-glib bug?
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yes there is:
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[SOLVED] GNOME Power Manager Icon

Hello,
With the recent influx of GNOME 2.22 packages, gnome-power-manager has begun to behave strangely on my system.
In gnome-power-preferences, I have specified that the notification area icon should only be displayed when my laptop battery is charging or discharging. Since I upgraded my GNOME packages, the icon has always appeared in my notication area upon login -- even if I am running on AC power. In that situation, the tooltip for the icon reads as follows:
Computer is running on AC power
Laptop batteries discharging (100%)
Battery discharge time is currently unknown
If I unplug the power cord from my computer, the icon (strangely) disappears. If I then proceed to plug the cord back in, the icon will appear briefly (I assume to indicate that what little power was drained from the battery is being replenished) and then disappear once more.
This problem is occurring on a Dell Inspiron 6400 (E1505). I feel that I might need to report this issue as a bug, but I'd first like to know if anyone else has noticed this oddity since the upgrade.
Thanks!
Edit:
It seems as if gnome-power-manager thinks that I have two laptop batteries (though I have only one). Clicking on the notification icon lists two batteries: one with the usual "on AC power" icon and the other with the "discharging" (standard battery) icon.
I do not think that there are any problems with ACPI: running acpi yields the following:
Battery 1: charged, 100%
I'm not quite sure where gnome-power-manager procures its information about the batteries)....
Last edited by ssjlegendx (2008-04-20 18:34:53)

I just updated to HAL 0.5.11rc2-2, and it seems that my problem has been solved!
I didn't see the related bug report before starting this thread.... Thanks, JGC!
Last edited by ssjlegendx (2008-08-02 20:44:41)

Gnome-power-manager no icon is being displayed

Hi.
I've recently upgraded to Gnome 2.18 from testing and noticed that gnome-power-manager does not display icon for my battery. I've chcecked options and everything seems to be fine. The process itself is also running. After couple of tests I've managed to show icon (killed process and re-run it with --no-daemon option) but after restart the icon was missing. Lshal shows my battery withouth any problem. Does anyone have similar problem??? My system is up-to-date, updated everyday.

In this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31193
JGC wrote:The gnome-power-manager thing is something that appeared after switching to the GtkStatusIcon API. This bug appears because gnome-power-manager starts before the notification area is placed on the panel.
This problem has been picked up already, so perhaps something's already being done before 2.18 goes to the extra repository.

Gnome-power-manager doesn't respond to disconnecting AC power supply

"acpi" command always shows correct information, but gnome-power-manager doesn't.
When computer is initially on AC power, and then I disconnect the adapter, gnome-power-manager still says hapilly that I'm on AC power, and the battery is fully charged. It only reacts when I plug adapter back. Then everything is correct. But If i disconnect it again - it shows "AC power, fully charged" again, even regarding the fact it was "80% charged" a second ago.
WTF?

After updating the BIOS, it's more correct, but still not always (I'm running Acer Aspire One 110).
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Gnome-power-manager update causes backlight to power off frequently

After the upgrade to gnome-power-manager 2.26.1-1 today, my laptop screen backlight is being powered off constantly, after only about 1 minute. It's not the screen blanking, but the backlight going off. It comes right back up if I do anything on the keyboard.
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Last edited by cb474 (2009-04-23 07:14:55)

Thanks, I looked for bugs on this, but didn't find that one on the backlight for some reason. I was about to issue my own bug report. Anyway, so I added my comments to the bug report, but it has been marked "fixed" already (because it was really addressing a slightly different issue with DPMS), so I don't know if I need to start a new bug report or not. I'll wait and see what kind of reply I get. (In fact, it seems like the fix to the problem in the backlight bug report may have caused the problem addressed in this thread.)
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xset -dpms
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You can also configue DPMS in xorg.conf, but I'm not using xorg.conf so I didn't fiddle with it. See: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DPMS and http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html.
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Gnome Power Manager Applet

Hi all,
since the last update, the gnome power manager applet is gone. I can change the preferences with the gnome-power-preferences tool, but the applet in the system bar is gone... Any idea?
Acker

Master One wrote:
So what's going on?
I do not assume, that users of other distros have such problems, at least in Foresight Linux the applet is working as supposed to, which confirms that it's not an upstream problem. There is a bug open, but no info about any progress.
Is anybody working on a fix?
Jan de Groot has been assigned to this task a few days ago. Jan works on 580 open tasks, most of which have a higher priority then this bug.
As seen from the screenshot threads, quite some Arch users are on Gnome, so that's surely not something just a minority is in need of.
What's with the Gnome 2.18.1 updates (though the working version of the Gnome Power Manager in Foresight Linux is 2.18.2 as well)?
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Gnome-power-management: /etc/group question

gnome-power-management suspending works great for me as root , but not as unprivileged user:
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TIA,
print

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Changing brightness in gnome-power-manager has no effect

Well it's mostly all in the title. When I change the brightness slider in gnome-power-manager it has no affect on brightness. However the fn key combo for changing the brightness does have change the brightness yet it brings up the volume like dialog for brightness yet no change is registered on the slider (despite brightness increasing). This erratic behavior is not seen in Fedora or Ubuntu so I know it can be made to work. I have a Dell Inspiron 640m.

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edit:
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Hi,
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When the system boots this characters can be seen in the screen just before udev is finished: ^@^@
I can add more characters during the whole boot process if I press Fn+F5 (the brightness hotkey).
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recently, I updated system, and now I have same problem like you had. I was not sure, what could cause this brightness fast changing. I thought about hal, dbus, udev. Never tried to downgrade udev. Now, I have udev 146. I am not sure what version I had before system upgrading.
Now, I have kernel 2.6.31, and I am not sure if udev 141 will work with this kernel...
I have MSI WIND, also...
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