Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

Battery Broken message cut off

Bug #155191 reported by Greg Michalec on 2007-10-21

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

On Ubuntu 7.10 (fresh install), when the "Battery May Be Broken" message comes up, the text is clipped so as not to form a complete sentence.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Find yourself a poor, old laptop in need of a new battery
2) Boot into Ubuntu
3) Note the alert message that comes up, which looks like this
-----------------------------------------------------------
| Battery may be broken |
| Your battery has a very low capacity |
| (38%), which means that it may be old or |
| [Do not show me this again] |
-----------------------------------------------------------

Expected Behavior:
Finish the sentence - or what?

Not a big deal, but a little point which could use some polish.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/gnome-power-manager

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vish (subscribevishnoo) wrote on 2007-10-31:

Screenshot.png Edit (389.1 KiB, image/png)

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Nicolas_Raoul (nicolas-raoul) wrote on 2008-01-23: What is the percentage

I can confirm this.
And there seems to be no way to read the full message, clicking on it makes it disappear.
Additionally, I don't find the message very understandable, that is 38% of what ?

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Iulian Udrea (iulian) wrote on 2008-02-21:

The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the actively developed release. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/

Thank you,

Iulian

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
assignee:	nobody → iulian
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

Iulian Udrea (iulian) on 2008-03-03

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
assignee:	iulian → nobody

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-03-19:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

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Ian Redfern (ian-redfern) wrote on 2008-03-25:

I can reproduce the problem with the Hardy Heron Beta Desktop Live CD - the word 'broken' is missing, as shown in the screenshot.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status:	Invalid → New

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Iulian Udrea (iulian) wrote on 2008-04-01:

Thank you for the information.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-02-17:

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-power-manager - 2.24.2-2ubuntu3

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gnome-power-manager (2.24.2-2ubuntu3) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Add 26-notifications.patch: Show alert boxes for important
    situations (“Battery may be recalled”, “Battery may be broken”,
    etc., and do not use actions in notifications if the
    notification-daemon does not support them. Thanks to Cody Russell!
    (LP: #329296) This also fixes the problem of cut-off notifications
    for broken batteries. (LP: #155191)
  * 74-disable-quirks-reference.patch: Updated for above patch, and
    simplified.

-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:34:44 +0100

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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Bob S (bps9371) wrote on 2010-05-19:

I have an Averatec 6200 laptop with an extra hard drive that I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on. When it boots up it says "your battery may be broken or old".. etc. etc. If I continue to operate it on AC power, the battery indicator shows full charge but the AC adapter connector gets hot and after awhile the battery also gets hot. I put my other hard drive in which has Window$ XP-Home installed on it and the same battery acts normally. It is an old battery but will last about an hour with XP but with Ubuntu, when I unplug the power adapter the systems goes into hibernation within 30 seconds. Something is not quite rite here.

I am new to Ubuntu. I had Fedora 10 on the same hard drive before I reformatted it and installed the newly downloaded Ubuntu and it worked ok. No problem with the batter there either. (I'm also quite new to Linux so I have little knowledge of the system) Wish I could help more.