Bug 170993 – Incorrect battery charge level in gnome-power-manager and HAL with x86_64 amd64 x64

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Michael 2007-03-15 03:28:42 UTC]

sys-apps/hal (and subsequently gnome-power-manager) reports the battery with about a 1000x increase in all(?) battery related readings.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run gnome-power-manager or "lshal | grep battery.charge" on a battery equipped laptop

Actual Results:  
Battery has a reported capacity of over 87,000 W

Expected Results:  
Battery has a real capacity of about 87 W (under x86)

Manually installing HAL 0.5.8+ fixed the battery readings in gnome-power-manager. This workaround probably breaks a number of other things though. There seems to be a number of x86_64 related bugs in HAL, this bug is just one of the more obvious ones.

[Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2007-04-05 16:02:02 UTC]

You didn't specify versions of ANYTHING with this report nor attach emerge --info.

[Comment 2 Mathieu Goutfreind 2007-08-11 15:07:35 UTC]

I've the same problem, i'm with hal  0.5.9-r1, and gentoo-sources-2.6.21-r4.

here is my emerge --info

Portage 2.1.2.11 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - M 1200MHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:29:01 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
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/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="fr_FR@euro"
LC_ALL="fr_FR@euro"
LINGUAS="fr fr_FR"
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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 apm avahi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dia dri dts dvd dvdnav dvdread encode esd fat ffmpeg flac fortran gamin gdbm gif gimpprint glib gnome gnutls gpm gtk hal iconv ieee1394 irda isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k ldap libnotify mad midi mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg msn mudflap mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh ncurses nls no-seamonkey nptl nptlonly nptonly nsplugin ntfs ogg openmp pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python readline reflection reiser4 reiserfs samba session snmp spell spl srt sse ssl svg symlink tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis wma wmf x264 x86 xml xorg xosd xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr fr_FR" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

 sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1 [0.5.9.1-r1] USE="acpi crypt -debug -dell -disk-partition -doc -pcmcia (-selinux)" 0 kB 

sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.21-r4  USE="symlink -build" 0 kB 

[Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2007-08-11 18:35:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I've the same problem, i'm with hal  0.5.9-r1, and gentoo-sources-2.6.21-r4.
> 
did you ever got it working ? I ask because some stuff that was introduce post 2.6.20 could break battery reading iirc.

[Comment 4 Mathieu Goutfreind 2007-08-12 12:20:58 UTC]

It works with my old linux kernel 2.6.20
but never with my 2.6.21-r4

[Comment 5 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2007-08-12 12:54:26 UTC]

did you activated deprecated /proc/acpi entries in kernel config ?

[Comment 6 Mathieu Goutfreind 2007-08-12 13:07:53 UTC]

No i've disabled procfs ACPI cause it's deprecated now, is there noway to workaround (without having to activate it) ?

[Comment 7 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2007-08-13 13:23:26 UTC]

Still no mention of exact versions of all the apps complained about namely, or if there is mention it's ambiguous.
 -hal
 -g-p-m (which had a complete overhaul of how IT calculates the battery charge level)
 -kernel