devkit-power-daemon broken?

[Ankur Sinha]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 14:24 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hey,
> >
> > I've had this issue for quite a while now.
> >
> > I have a HP pavilion laptop that runs a Fedora 12 (up to date) and vista
> > (the original that came with the laptop). I'm using GNOME as of now.
> >
> > When a power cut occurs, the power applet continues to show the adapter
> > plugged in,and battery at 100%. This restrains my system from
> > hibernating etc correctly, or even dimming display when ac power is
> > removed.
> >
> > I've already filed a bug here.
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554363
> >
> > To confirm that there is indeed a bug, I've checked using acpi-tool,
> > htop all of which give correct values of battery and that there is no ac
> > power attached.
> >
> > As the bugreport says, killing /usr/libexec/devkit-power-daemon and re
> > running it corrects the status, however it's irritating to have to do
> > this every time a power cut occurs (if im around that is).
> >
> > Can someone think of a fix or at least a work around for the time
> > being?
> 
> I can confirm I see the same on a Dell Latitude D630C on F-12 as well.
> 
> Peter


There appear to be bugs on this issue[1][2] with lengthy discussions
already having taken place. The bug has been reported in 9/2009, which
is 6 months back. Can the concerned maintainers please prioritize this
bug and squash it asap? Proper functioning of power manager on a laptop
is really important. :)

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521874
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499948

Thanks !


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Ankur 
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