[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#606414: [upower] Same problem here probably caused by the battery

[Paolo Scarabelli]

Package: upower
Version: 0.9.15-3

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I have the same problem and I believe it's caused by the battery,
upowerd runs pretty much all the time at 50% to 90% CPU.

If I remove the laptop battery the problem disappears and CPU usage goes
back to normal (0% most of the time).

If I monitor upowerd I can see that the battery state is continuously
updated:

# upower --monitor
Monitoring activity from the power daemon. Press Ctrl+C to cancel.
[11:00:05.202]	device removed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:09.834]	device added:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:09.836]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:09.839]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:09.842]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:09.846]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:10.790]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:11.791]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:24.235]	device removed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:29.051]	device added:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:29.055]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:29.058]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:29.061]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:29.067]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:30.792]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[11:00:31.791]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
^C

The battery icon in gnome shell keeps appearing and disappearing every
(more or less) 15 seconds as if the battery was being plugged and
unplugged. When the battery icon is visible it reports the battery
status as charging, 97%. The battery is never reported as 100% full,
even if the laptop has been plugged to the AC power all night.

If I kill the upowerd process the battery icon stops flipping on and
off, it's visible all the time and it reports the status as charging,
97% (fixed).

This is very annoying because, since several packages depend on upowerd,
removing it is not an option and on Debian Testing and there is no other
version in the repositories. All I can do to work around this problem is
to either work without a battery or kill the upowerd process when it
starts hogging the cpu time.


Thanks,


Paolo

--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae

Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  500 testing         www.debian-multimedia.org
  500 testing         security.debian.org
  500 testing         ftp.us.debian.org
  500 testing         deb.opera.com
  500 stable          dl.google.com
  500 squeeze         debian.fusionforge.org
  500 binary          pkg.jenkins-ci.org
   50 experimental    ftp.us.debian.org
  100 unstable        oss.oracle.com
  100 unstable        ftp.us.debian.org

--- Package information. ---
Depends                      (Version) | Installed
======================================-+-=============
libc6                         (>= 2.4) | 2.13-30
libdbus-1-3                 (>= 1.0.2) | 1.5.12-1
libdbus-glib-1-2             (>= 0.88) | 0.98-1
libglib2.0-0               (>= 2.30.0) | 2.32.0-4
libgudev-1.0-0                (>= 146) | 175-3.1
libimobiledevice2           (>= 0.9.7) | 1.1.1-4
libplist1                    (>= 0.16) | 1.8-1
libpolkit-gobject-1-0        (>= 0.99) | 0.104-2
libupower-glib1             (>= 0.9.2) | 0.9.15-3
libusb-1.0-0              (>= 2:1.0.8) | 2:1.0.9~rc3-4
udev                                   | 175-3.1
dbus                                   | 1.5.12-1
pm-utils                               | 1.4.1-9


Recommends       (Version) | Installed
==========================-+-===========
policykit-1                | 0.104-2


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