Bug#780844: mate-power-statistics crashes when you unplug a wireless device which has a battery

[Vlad Orlov]

Source: mate-power-manager
Version: 1.8.1+dfsg1-4
Severity: important

Due to an incompatibility with upower 0.99 (API has been changed),
mate-power-statistics crashes when you unplug a wireless device
which has a battery (e.g. mouse).

Steps to reproduce:

1. Attach a wireless mouse to your laptop (e.g. Logitech M235, M525).
2. Start mate-power-statistics. It will show info about both the laptop
    battery power level and the mouse battery power level.
3. Unplug the mouse's wireless dongle.
4. mate-power-statistics crashes.

It has been reported that it can be reproduced on a desktop as well
(with just a wireless mouse).

Note: your wireless device should be able to report power statistics,
or else you might not be able to reproduce the issue.


The upstream pull request [1] fixes the problem. It has been tested by
several users with various wireless mice on both laptops and desktops.


[1] https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-power-manager/pull/133