[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#762370: upower: fails to execute action (HybridSleep) on critical battery condition

[Stefan Nagy]

Package: upower
Version: 0.99.1-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

because of a firmware bug [1] my notebook won't be sent into hibernation when
the battery reaches a critical level unless I edit line
UsePercentageForPolicy=false to UsePercentageForPolicy=true in
/etc/UPower/Upower.conf

After changing this setting my notebook should be sent into HybridSleep mode
when the battery's charging level reaches 2 percent. Indeed, when the battery
reaches PercentageAction, some action seems to be executed… To me it looks
like the notebook is sent into HybridSleep for some (maybe one or two) seconds,
just to wake up again, show me the login screen and then stay awake until my
battery drains completely.

I should mention that I am able to send my notebook to HybridSleep manually
with pm-suspend-hybrid without any problems (the same goes for pm-suspend and
pm-hibernate). Please tell me if I can provide any more useful information.

Stefan.


[1] see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695634



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages upower depends on:
ii  dbus               1.8.6-2
ii  libc6              2.19-11
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.8.6-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.102-1
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.40.0-5
ii  libgudev-1.0-0     208-8
ii  libimobiledevice4  1.1.6+dfsg-3.1
ii  libplist2          1.11-3
ii  libupower-glib3    0.99.1-3
ii  libusb-1.0-0       2:1.0.19-1
ii  udev               208-8

Versions of packages upower recommends:
ii  policykit-1  0.105-6.1

upower suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/UPower/UPower.conf changed:
[UPower]
EnableWattsUpPro=false
NoPollBatteries=false
IgnoreLid=false
UsePercentageForPolicy=true
PercentageLow=10
PercentageCritical=3
PercentageAction=2
TimeLow=1200
TimeCritical=300
TimeAction=120
CriticalPowerAction=HybridSleep


-- no debconf information