Power indicator shows battery not present and the actually used battery at the same time

Seems that the upower reports that you have 2 batteries, Is this the case?

No, that is certainly not the case.

I'm using an HP Elitebook 8560w in case that helps.

Hello Ingo,
Seems a bug in upower. Anyway I added a workaround in the indicator-power to try to fix this

Javier, thanks a lot for the fix. I'll keep an eye out whether it is fixed once I receive the update.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I've duplicated a bug report that I opened a couple of weeks ago with this same issue. In my case the bug is critical, as sometimes the wrong battery comes first and the system thinks it has run out of battery and shuts down.

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-power - 0.9-0ubuntu2

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indicator-power (0.9-0ubuntu2) oneiric; urgency=low

  * src/indicator-power.c
    - Add a workaround to fix the case when we get a empty bay as a real
      battery. (LP: #863518)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:35:48 -0400

I'm sorry to report this, but the bug still is not fixed. See screenshot.

The description of your patch stated that it fixed a case where an empty bay was interpreted as a battery. However, I am not aware that my laptop even has a second bay.
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2011/businessmobility/HPEliteBook8560wDatasheet.pdf

-> Setting back to "confirmed".

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Wrong screenshot previously.

In my case I haven't seen this bug any more after the update in indicator-power that included this patch. And I don't have a second battery either, but I had exactly Ingo's screenshot.

Ingo, have you check if you also see this with another user profile in your system? Just to discard that there is not something related to some user file in your profile causing the update to not working in your system.

Hello,

As I said before, this is not a bug in indicator-power (It only shows the data reported by upower), but in the kernel instead.

I am still having this problem after the update, and it is also still causing my system to shut down any time I unplug my laptop (even briefly) or resume from suspend.