Bug#342692: kdelibs-bin: kcmshell reports bogus battery power statistics

2005-12-10 Thread Christopher Martin
reassign 342692 klaptopdaemon
forwarded 342692 http://bugs.kde.org/89551
tags 342692 upstream
stop

On Friday 09 December 2005 09:48, Branden Robinson wrote:
> At any rate, on my battery-less desktop system, I get a warning on every
> KDE startup that my battery is low, and the battery monitor wrongly
> reports that I have a battery (which is always empty and never charging).
>
> The battery power level is reported as the highly bogus value -2^32%.

This looks quite like upstream bug #89551. It seems that there is a ppc 
kernel issue which results in programs thinking that the system has a 
battery, and grabbing a nonsensical value. There are work-arounds, however, 
though it would appear that klaptopdaemon hasn't yet implemented one.

Cheers,
Christopher Martin


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Bug#342692: kdelibs-bin: kcmshell reports bogus battery power statistics

2005-12-09 Thread Branden Robinson
Minor correction:

Of course, I meant to say that the battery power level was reported as
-(2^31)%, since evidently a signed 32-bit value is being used.

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Bug#342692: kdelibs-bin: kcmshell reports bogus battery power statistics

2005-12-09 Thread Branden Robinson
Package: kdelibs-bin
Version: 4:3.4.3-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/kcmshell

I couldn't find out which KDE binary actually provides the battery monitor
(the menu says "KLaptop", but there is no executable by that name on my
system).

Using ps and grep I found "/usr/bin/kcmshell laptop", which represents my
best guess at which binary is responsible.

At any rate, on my battery-less desktop system, I get a warning on every
KDE startup that my battery is low, and the battery monitor wrongly reports
that I have a battery (which is always empty and never charging).

The battery power level is reported as the highly bogus value -2^32%.

See attached screenshot.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-powerpc-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages kdelibs-bin depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a  4:3.4.3-2   core libraries for all KDE applica
ii  libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaudio21.7-3   The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libbz2-1.0   1.0.2-11high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc62.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsys2   1.1.23-12   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libfam0  2.7.0-8 client library to control the FAM 
ii  libfontconfig1   2.3.2-1.1   generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6 2.1.10-1FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1  1:4.0.2-5   GCC support library
ii  libice6  6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11 0.5.18-1GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg626b-10   The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0   1.2.8rel-5  PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt3:3.3.5-3   Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6   6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++6   4.0.2-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxcursor1  1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii  libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2  2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6   6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxinerama1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System multi-head display
ii  libxml2  2.6.22-2GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2   6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxrender1  1:0.9.0-2   X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1   1.1.15-2XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  libxt6   6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  menu-xdg 0.2.1   freedesktop.org menu compliant win
ii  netpbm   2:10.0-10   Graphics conversion tools
ii  perl 5.8.7-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  python   2.3.5-3 An interactive high-level object-o
ii  xlibs6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.3-8   compression library - runtime

Versions of packages kdelibs-bin recommends:
ii  perl-suid 5.8.7-8Runs setuid Perl scripts

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