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Half-Shot

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From: Chelmsford, Essex, UK

Registered: 2013-10-19

Posts: 18

ACPI reporting a battery in a desktop.

Really odd. Yesterday it started reporting that I have a battery that is constantly discharging and at 0%. Gnome Shell subsequently also has an annoying icon reporting a full battery.

The output of ACPI is:

~:acpi
Battery 0: Discharging, 0%, rate information unavailable

It's a minor annoyance, and I don't know if anyone has any ideas as to why.

clfarron4

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From: London, UK

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Re: ACPI reporting a battery in a desktop.

There was a big change in the upower API recently...

Any package updates that happened around the time this started happening?

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Half-Shot

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From: Chelmsford, Essex, UK

Registered: 2013-10-19

Posts: 18

Re: ACPI reporting a battery in a desktop.

Interestingly, I didn't get the upgrade (should mention i'm on testing branch).

cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep acpi
[2013-10-26 21:44] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 	atieventsd (needs acpid pkg) on systemd:
[2013-10-31 16:11] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 	atieventsd (needs acpid pkg) on systemd:
[2013-11-09 16:42] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S acpi'
[2013-11-09 16:42] [PACMAN] installed acpi (1.6-1)
[2013-11-22 21:30] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 	atieventsd (needs acpid pkg) on systemd:
[2013-11-25 16:05] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 	atieventsd (needs acpid pkg) on systemd:
[2013-11-25 17:03] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 	atieventsd (needs acpid pkg) on systemd:
[2013-12-19 16:14] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 	atieventsd (needs acpid pkg) on systemd:
[2013-12-22 16:21] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 	atieventsd (needs acpid pkg) on systemd:
[2014-01-02 22:35] [PACMAN] upgraded acpi (1.6-1 -> 1.7-1)
[2014-01-15 17:35] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 	atieventsd (needs acpid pkg) on systemd:
[2014-01-21 21:28] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 	atieventsd (needs acpid pkg) on systemd:
[2014-01-21 22:05] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 	atieventsd (needs acpid pkg) on systemd:
[2014-02-02 18:03] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 	atieventsd (needs acpid pkg) on systemd:
[2014-02-24 20:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 	atieventsd (needs acpid pkg) on systemd:
[2014-03-02 12:33] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] 	atieventsd (needs acpid pkg) on systemd:

Edit: Doh, upower.

cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep upower
[2013-10-26 21:55] [PACMAN] installed upower (0.9.22-1)
[2013-10-29 10:08] [PACKAGEKIT] upgraded upower (0.9.22-1 -> 0.9.23-2)
[2014-04-14 20:10] [PACMAN] upgraded upower (0.9.23-2 -> 0.99.0-2)

It was updated fairly recently, but that wasn't the same day I got issues.

Last edited by Half-Shot (2014-04-27 17:13:46)