Bugzilla Bug 143859

My battery state is not detected after upgrading powersave from 0.12.20 to
0.13.4

Before...

# emerge -pv powersave && powersave -B

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] sys-power/powersave-0.12.20  USE="-doc -pam_console" 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
Battery: 90 %, 23 minutes until fully charged charging
AC is online.
Battery1: 90 %, 23 minutes charging
Battery2: not present

After...

# emerge -pv powersave && powersave -B

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] sys-power/powersave-0.13.4  USE="-doc -pam_console" 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
AC is online.
Battery 1 is no primary energysource. Skipping...
Battery 2 is no primary energysource. Skipping...

/proc/acpi/battery looks Ok, state can be obtained by looking at appropriate
entry.

Hardware is a HP Compaq nc8230

Emerge Info

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4,
2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash
/etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe
-fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox
sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo                
ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/                
http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LINGUAS="en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage
/usr/portage/local/layman/catalystframework"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts
bzip2 cairo cli crypt cups curl dlloader dri dvd emacs emboss encode ffmpeg
firefox foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gs gstreamer gtk2 hal
imagemagick imlib isdnlog java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas latin1 lcms
libg++ libwww logrotate mad mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg musicbrainz ncurses nls
nptl nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic png ppds pppd python qt3
qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session smartcard spell spl sse
sse2 ssl svg tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode
vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xscreensaver xv zlib elibc_glibc
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux
linguas_en_GB userland_GNU video_cards_fglrx video_cards_radeon
video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vga"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

thanks, I masked powersave-0.13

This bug was just fixed in powersave-0.13.5.

From
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=124576&release_id=439382
:

> Changes:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mon Aug 14 13:08:16 CEST 2006 - fseidel@suse.de
>
> - libpower: fix primary batteries aren't found
> - r2406

Renaming the powersave-0.13.4 ebuild to powersave-0.13.5 works fine.

yeah. I bumped the version to that one but left the mask in because .13 is
known to break sometimes. Thanks