[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#606414: Bug#638970: Probably caused by acpi battery kernel module and fixed in kernel to 3.2.18-1

[Paolo Scarabelli]

Hi,

It seems the bug, at least in my case, was caused by the acpi battery
kernel module reporting the battery as connected and disconnected
continuously.

Since I upgraded my kernel to 3.2.18-1 the battery icon  stopped
flipping on and off and the cpu use by upowerd is pretty much normal.
upowerd --monitor shows a change in battery state every 20 seconds or so:

upower --monitor
Monitoring activity from the power daemon. Press Ctrl+C to cancel.
[13:40:02.582]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[13:40:21.619]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[13:40:40.652]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[13:40:59.685]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[13:41:18.716]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
[13:41:37.754]	device changed:
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0


Thank you and have a nice day,


Paolo