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Quackmatic

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Registered: 2014-12-15

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Cinnamon battery indicator doesn't update with upower 0.99.4

Hi,

I recently did a pacman -Syu as I occasionally do. I noticed afterward that this caused the battery indicator to become "stuck" in Cinnamon; that is, it wouldn't update until a power-related event (such as un/plugging the charger or resuming from suspend) occurred. The true battery level could still be obtained using the Power Management interface in Cinnamon. Through some digging I discovered that the Cinnamon interface's battery notification uses upower for its information, and during my system update, upower was upgraded from 0.99.3 to 0.99.4 I did a downgrade through the pacman cache and this has fixed the issue. My hardware is a stock Thinkpad X220 running Cinnamon and lightdm, I'm happy to provide more info if people want to.

Can someone pin down this issue and find the cause? It's not immediately obvious what causes this issue and might throw new users. I'm no expert myself but luckily I have some troubleshooting experience.

Last edited by Quackmatic (2016-02-27 03:17:02)

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sfilipov

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Registered: 2014-02-01

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Re: Cinnamon battery indicator doesn't update with upower 0.99.4

I experience the same issue. Applet gets updated when I run "upower --dump".

Chris Cromer

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From: Chile

Registered: 2014-08-30

Posts: 30

Re: Cinnamon battery indicator doesn't update with upower 0.99.4

Same here, thanks for the tip, downgrading to 0.99.3 has fixed it for me.

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marmistrz

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Registered: 2016-01-05

Posts: 129

Re: Cinnamon battery indicator doesn't update with upower 0.99.4

And for me upower --dump is not a fix.

superyo

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Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 5

Re: Cinnamon battery indicator doesn't update with upower 0.99.4

FYI this was fixed in cinnamon-settings-daemon 2.8.4-2

Cheers

kahlil88

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From: Mendocino, CA

Registered: 2010-08-10

Posts: 143

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Re: Cinnamon battery indicator doesn't update with upower 0.99.4

Still not working on my machine. Downgrading to upower 0.99.3 fixed it for awhile but I have to run acpi from a terminal (usually 2 or 3 times) to see the correct numbers. What's really frustrating is my laptop will suddenly die instead of giving a warning or automatically shutting down.

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