Despite command lines to the contrary, batterymon will only monitor battery 0 (BAT0) if multiple batteries exist. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have a laptop with multiple batteries 2. type 'batterymon -b BAT1' 3. Actual Results: pearcely@pearcely2 ~ $ batterymon -b BAT1 More than one battery was found please pass -b BAT[number] using battery BAT0 as default Expected Results: To monitor the nominated battery When searching to see if multiple batteries exist, does not deal with finding multiple. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.11.3-r0, 2.6.36-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r8-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_M_620_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r2, 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=core2 -march=core2 -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /lib/udev/rules.d /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=core2 -march=core2 -ggdb" DISTDIR="/portage/gentoo/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/gentoo" LANG="en_AU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/portage/gentoo/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/portage/gentoo" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 amr apache2 berkdb bindist bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr cleartype cli consolekit corefonts cracklib crypt css cups cxx daap dbus dri dts dvb dvd dvdr emacs emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gd gdbm gdu gif gpm gtk iconv ipod ipv6 java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde laptop latin1 lcms ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl pmu png policykit posix ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline rss samba sdl server session smp spell sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff transcode truetype type1 udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wifi wma x264 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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 mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
app-laptop/batterymon is now masked for removal in 30 days. Upstream seems dead and more recent version require HAL. Please use app-laptop/batti instead. Sorry..