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#1 2019-08-20 10:55:32

Xwang
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Registered: 2012-05-14
Posts: 354

kde plasma battery indicator says "no battery available" after upgrade

Hi,
today a lot of plasma packages have been updated and after a reboot the battery indicator says "no battery available" and gives no estimate of the charge level and time till complete discharge.
This is the output of

upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
  native-path:          BAT0
  vendor:               ASUSTeK
  model:                ASUS Battery
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              mar 20 ago 2019, 12:37:41 (21 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               charging
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              11,58 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         30,945 Wh
    energy-full-design:  48 Wh
    energy-rate:         14,82 W
    voltage:             15 V
    time to full:        1,3 hours
    percentage:          37%
    capacity:            64,4688%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    icon-name:          'battery-good-charging-symbolic'
  History (charge):
    1566297435  37,000  charging
    1566297425  0,000   unknown
  History (rate):
    1566297461  14,820  charging
    1566297457  23,280  discharging
    1566297435  24,675  charging
    1566297425  0,000   unknown

These are the packages that have been upgraded this morning:

2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] transaction started
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded cryptsetup (2.1.0-1 -> 2.2.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded aqbanking (5.7.8-1 -> 5.8.1-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded attica (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded ki18n (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded karchive (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kconfig (5.60.0-2 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kcoreaddons (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kfilemetadata (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kidletime (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded solid (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kwidgetsaddons (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kjobwidgets (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kdbusaddons (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kwindowsystem (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kcrash (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kglobalaccel (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kcompletion (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kservice (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kauth (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kcodecs (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kguiaddons (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kconfigwidgets (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kitemviews (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kiconthemes (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded sonnet (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded ktextwidgets (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kxmlgui (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kbookmarks (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded knotifications (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kwallet (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded kio (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded baloo (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded bluez-qt (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:02] [ALPM] upgraded breeze-icons (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded cuda (10.1.168-4 -> 10.1.243-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded kpackage (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded knewstuff (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded frameworkintegration (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded git (2.22.1-1 -> 2.23.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded kactivities (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded kactivities-stats (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded kdeclarative (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded kcmutils (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded kinit (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded kded (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded kunitconversion (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded kitemmodels (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded kemoticons (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded kparts (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded kdelibs4support (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:03] [ALPM] upgraded kplotting (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kdesignerplugin (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kpty (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kdesu (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kdewebkit (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kdnssd (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kdoctools (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kholidays (1:5.60.0-1 -> 1:5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kjs (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded khtml (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kimageformats (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kirigami2 (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kjsembed (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded knotifyconfig (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kpeople (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kross (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kwayland (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded plasma-framework (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded threadweaver (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded krunner (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded syntax-highlighting (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded ktexteditor (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded kxmlrpcclient (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded libheif (1.4.0-3 -> 1.5.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded modemmanager-qt (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded networkmanager-qt (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded prison (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded purpose (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded python2-regex (2019.06.02-1 -> 2019.08.19-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded qqc2-desktop-style (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded recode (3.7.1-1 -> 3.7.2-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] upgraded syndication (5.60.0-1 -> 5.61.0-1)
[2019-08-20 12:04] [ALPM] transaction completed

I think I cannot go back to a previous version of plasma-framework (if it is the package to investigate) without reverting also the other kde packages that depend to that. Is it correct?
What can I do?

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#2 2019-08-20 11:58:34

Xwang
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Registered: 2012-05-14
Posts: 354

Re: kde plasma battery indicator says "no battery available" after upgrade

I've found this long standing bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350365 that seems related.

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#3 2020-12-17 01:09:15

malkortechie
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Registered: 2019-10-31
Posts: 11

Re: kde plasma battery indicator says "no battery available" after upgrade

I had this as well, just after installing onto a new laptop: specifically a Dell Latitude 5580. I installed the "acpi" and "powerdevil" packages...
  > sudo pacman -S acpi powerdevil

...and rebooted: KDE now has the Batt % used.

Last edited by malkortechie (2020-12-17 01:12:53)

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