Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #135548
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 135548

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MattJ (mwild1) wrote : Re: [Gutsy] Action on critical battery isn't triggered - regression

Yes, same issue with the latest version.

I think I can maybe offer some explanation for (at least my) part of the problem.

The critical_action in gconf is set to 120 seconds of time remaining. As I wrote previously the lowest my remaining time indicator in the g-p-a tooltip never goes below 5 minutes... it disappears after that (it also seems to go in 5-minute steps, ie. 10min, 5min, disappeared). So I am guessing it never internally reaches 120 seconds.

I changed the critical action to 300 seconds (5 minutes), no luck. However when I set it to 360, it now works as it should, hibernating when there are 6 minutes remaining. Switching to percentage-based thresholds is also a workaround for the problem.

This bug is critical as Fabien said, simply because it exists in the default setup and has a very high risk of data loss for unsuspecting users.