Bug#418992: battstat applet dies with newer kernel

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.18.0-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

it is basically this problem (and a patch is available from there)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427562

maybe another workaround could be to configure the applet to use hal ?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-rc6-debug (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
-- debconf information excluded