Bug 165989

Summary:	xfce-extra/xfce4-battery-0.5.0: No display of temperature or fan status
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	XFCE Team <xfce>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2884
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Proposed bugfix (patch for panel-plugin/libacpi.c)

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2007-02-08 20:49:45 UTC

On a HP Compaq nc6120 laptop, the battery plugin does neither display the
temperature nor the fan status.

Attached patch should fix the problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start battery panel plugin
Actual Results:  
Temperature and fan status are not shown.

Expected Results:  
Temperature and fan status being displayed.

Problem has been reported upstream, see URL.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2007-02-08 20:50:36 UTC

Created attachment 109584 [details, diff]
Proposed bugfix (patch for panel-plugin/libacpi.c)

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-08 20:54:17 UTC

Thanks for reporting but likely we will wait what upstream does before applying this patch. If they apply it, we will also. Can you ping on this bug when upstream responses on that bug in case I happen to miss it.

Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2007-02-08 21:10:49 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Thanks for reporting but likely we will wait what upstream does before
> applying this patch.

I hope that they will be faster than with my last panel-plugin bug report (which took them half a year :-( ).

Please note that this bug should be present on _any_ (ACPI) hardware: The plugin tries to fopen a file "/proc/acpi/fan/*/state" which cannot work, since fopen of course doesn't expand wildcards. This is a regression from the 0.3.0 version.

> Can you ping on this bug when upstream responses on that bug in case
> I happen to miss it.

Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-09 14:46:15 UTC

> I hope that they will be faster than with my last panel-plugin bug report
> (which took them half a year :-( ).

After short discussion with upstream I've applied this patch in CVS.

Thanks for reporting.

Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2010-12-27 16:19:42 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> I hope that they will be faster than with my last panel-plugin bug report
> (which took them half a year :-( ).

Yeah, that was way too optimistic. Patch has been applied upstream, after almost 4 years.

Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-12-27 16:34:10 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > I hope that they will be faster than with my last panel-plugin bug report
> > (which took them half a year :-( ).
> 
> Yeah, that was way too optimistic. Patch has been applied upstream, after
> almost 4 years.
> 

between this time there has been no upstream maintainer. 
the guy who finally applied the patch, is a general xfce goodies maintainer, so battery will be on it's own again...