Public bug reported: I have an Acer Aspire 3003LWCi and its battery got erratic. ACPI does not recognizes battery status anymore:
$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info present: yes design capacity: 2000 mAh last full capacity: 65010 mAh battery technology: rechargeable design voltage: 14400 mV design capacity warning: 200 mAh design capacity low: 2600 mAh capacity granularity 1: 32 mAh capacity granularity 2: 32 mAh model number: 11ZL serial number: 120 battery type: LION OEM info: SIMPLO $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state present: yes ERROR: Unable to read battery status And kernel throws this error on /var/log/kern.log: Nov 17 01:03:18 localhost kernel: [17185034.588000] ACPI Exception (acpi_battery-0218): AE_SUPPORT, Extracting _BST [20060707] Every time I get logged in Gnome HAL crashes (I supose that the battery is the problem, for if I remove it HAL works perfectly well) right on start. HAL should not crash but instead report a faulty battery. ** Affects: hal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- HAL crashes due to battery problem https://launchpad.net/bugs/72123 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs