Comment 48 for bug 531190

As a mentioned before: changing the action for "lid closed" to "do nothing" or "blank screen" is an other solution.

With this change if unplugging the ac cable the laptop just does nothing or blanks the screen.

This worked for me. Is anybody else helped with this info? Maybe there is a solution to find in this workaround.

The initial workaround did not work for me.

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Van: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] Namens Jeremy Jongsma
Verzonden: woensdag 8 december 2010 18:22
Aan: <email address hidden>
Onderwerp: [Bug 531190] Re: upower (devkit-power) reporting bad data when AC cable is unplugged

Brand new Dell Vostro 3700 running Maverick, fully charged battery, seeing the same behavior - it wants to hibernate as soon as I unplug.
Using the workaround, when I unplug it still says "5 minutes of power left" (but at least does not hibernate), then within a few seconds it updates to tell me I have 2 hours 45 minutes of power. This looks really sloppy and confusing.

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Title:
  upower (devkit-power) reporting bad data when AC cable is unplugged

Status in DeviceKit based power management D-Bus backend:
  Confirmed
Status in “upower” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “upower” package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: upower

upower reports enormous energy-rate for first time after cord is unplugged.
GPM reacts on this first event not checking subsequent events.

This bug is started because I found no ways to collect data for 473552.
I have no devkit-power package.

=== EFFECTS ===

This is the underlying cause to gnome-power-manager immediately reporting critical battery after unplug even while charge is good. It is not a gnome-power-manager problem, the root is here in upower. Please do not report bugs against gnome-power-manager for this!

To workaround the effects execute:

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/general/use_time_for_policy false

(from <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/572541/comments/1>)

=== apport information ===

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 3 11:15:13 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/upower/upowerd
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha 3 i386 (20100225)
Package: upower 0.9.0+git20100216.b9bb78-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:

ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: upower
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic i686
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha 3 i386 (20100225)
Package: upower 0.9.0+git20100216.b9bb78-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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