Bug#469114: gnome-power-manager: Reports that I have 4 batteries instead of 2

[James Healy]

Package: gnome-power-manager
Version: 2.20.2-3
Severity: normal


I have 2 (fairly old) batteries in my Dell d620 laptop. Between the 2 I
get something approaching a useful amount of time away from a power
socket.

Recently gnome-power-manager started reporting that I have 4 batteries,
as shown in the attached screenshot. If I get more info on them and
examine the model/manufacturer info, it seems to be showing each battery
twice - although some stats differ (like the % of power left).

There's definitely only 2:

[jh at gaz Desktop]$ ls -l /proc/acpi/battery
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-03-03 18:35 BAT0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-03-03 18:35 BAT1

The details for the 2 batteries are as follows:

[jh at gaz Desktop]$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info 
present:                 yes
design capacity:         7800 mAh
last full capacity:      2505 mAh
battery technology:      rechargeable
design voltage:          11100 mV
design capacity warning: 780 mAh
design capacity low:     236 mAh
capacity granularity 1:  78 mAh
capacity granularity 2:  78 mAh
model number:            DELL PD6856
serial number:           2038
battery type:            LION
OEM info:                SMP

[jh at gaz Desktop]$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info 
present:                 yes
design capacity:         4200 mAh
last full capacity:      3906 mAh
battery technology:      rechargeable
design voltage:          11100 mV
design capacity warning: 420 mAh
design capacity low:     127 mAh
capacity granularity 1:  42 mAh
capacity granularity 2:  42 mAh
model number:            DELL 0000M7
serial number:           630
battery type:            LiP
OEM info:                Sony

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-jh (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.20.1-3          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  hal                    0.5.10-5          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-1          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.20.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.21.90-1         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.21.90-1         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-9             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.4.14-1          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.1.20-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.74-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.5.0-2           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.5-1+b1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.20.1-3          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.14.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.20.3-1          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.20.1-2        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.17-2         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.8-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1                0.5.10-5          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.4-3           sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.10-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0     2.20.3-3          library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.18.4-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.15~beta5-3    PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0               1.10-3            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-1+b1      X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notificatio 0.9-1             library for program launch feedbac
ii  libwnck22              2.20.3-1          Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1            1:1.1.9-1         X cursor management library
ii  libxext6               1:1.0.3-2         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3             1:4.0.3-2         X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.3-1         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           1:1.0.2-1         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                2.6.31.dfsg-1     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.2.2-1         X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-1         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  notification-daemon    0.3.7-1+b1        a daemon that displays passive pop
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime

gnome-power-manager recommends no packages.

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