[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#902644: upower: Upower breaks power saving settings after upgrade to 0.99.8-1

[Michael Biebl]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 10:58:11 +0100 Alessandro Ghedini
<alessandro at ghedini.me> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 09:55:01PM -0300, Adilson dos Santos Dantas wrote:
> > Package: upower
> > Version: 0.99.8-1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > After upgrading upower to 0.99.8-1, my KDE power saving settings stops working.
> > There is no reaction when I unplug and plug back my notebook AC power.
> > Only the battery charge status changes after a few minutes.
> > 
> > The only workaround found, for this problem, is a downgrade back to 0.99.7-2.
> 
> Same here. I noticed that after the upgrade, upower doesn't send the
> PropertiesChanged D-Bus signal anymore, which I'm guessing is what most clients
> use to detect changes in the upower status.
> 
> You can verify this by running "sudo busctl monitor org.freedesktop.UPower"
> and unplugging/plugging the power cable: before the upgrade I see the signal,
> but after the upgrade I don't see it anymore.
> 
> Looking at the changes in 0.99.8, [1] looks like it might be the source of the
> problem.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/commit/41bce284476030b22cd6d60280fb875f507f47a2

Thanks for your bug report. Since I could reproduce the issue myself,
I've forwarded it as https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/upower/issues/68

Unfortunately, simply reverting 41bce284476030b22cd6d60280fb875f507f47a2
was not sufficient to make 0.99.8 work again.

Regards,
Michael

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