574756 in upower (Ubuntu): “battery charge information varies incorrectly in lucid” [ubuntu netbook remix] Battery Power Indicator - sporadic monitoring. Hibernate when critically low. 579069 in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu): “Unplugging AC power reports critical battery / auto-suspend; battery is actually full” Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 Fully updated packages Kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic The computer is an MSI Wind u100 netbook, 3-cell battery.
The BIOS is flashed with the latest available firmware, which is 1.0G, released on 2010-01-04. Upon unplugging the netbook from AC power, the panel reports that the battery is critically low (2 minutes left) even though the indicator applet also reports the battery is 100% charged; and then the system auto-suspends without confirmation.
After resuming from suspend, the panel reports that the battery is 100% charged (or whatever the actual value is.) In other words, the system is doing what is set under Power Management, which is to suspend when the battery is critically low.