Package: upower Version: 0.9.15-3 --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
I have the same problem and I believe it's caused by the battery, upowerd runs pretty much all the time at 50% to 90% CPU. If I remove the laptop battery the problem disappears and CPU usage goes back to normal (0% most of the time). If I monitor upowerd I can see that the battery state is continuously updated: # upower --monitor Monitoring activity from the power daemon. Press Ctrl+C to cancel. [11:00:05.202] device removed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:09.834] device added: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:09.836] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:09.839] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:09.842] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:09.846] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:10.790] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:11.791] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:24.235] device removed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:29.051] device added: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:29.055] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:29.058] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:29.061] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:29.067] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:30.792] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 [11:00:31.791] device changed: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 ^C The battery icon in gnome shell keeps appearing and disappearing every (more or less) 15 seconds as if the battery was being plugged and unplugged. When the battery icon is visible it reports the battery status as charging, 97%. The battery is never reported as 100% full, even if the laptop has been plugged to the AC power all night. If I kill the upowerd process the battery icon stops flipping on and off, it's visible all the time and it reports the status as charging, 97% (fixed). This is very annoying because, since several packages depend on upowerd, removing it is not an option and on Debian Testing and there is no other version in the repositories. All I can do to work around this problem is to either work without a battery or kill the upowerd process when it starts hogging the cpu time. Thanks, Paolo --- System information. --- Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae Debian Release: wheezy/sid 500 testing www.debian-multimedia.org 500 testing security.debian.org 500 testing ftp.us.debian.org 500 testing deb.opera.com 500 stable dl.google.com 500 squeeze debian.fusionforge.org 500 binary pkg.jenkins-ci.org 50 experimental ftp.us.debian.org 100 unstable oss.oracle.com 100 unstable ftp.us.debian.org --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed ======================================-+-============= libc6 (>= 2.4) | 2.13-30 libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2) | 1.5.12-1 libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.88) | 0.98-1 libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.30.0) | 2.32.0-4 libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 146) | 175-3.1 libimobiledevice2 (>= 0.9.7) | 1.1.1-4 libplist1 (>= 0.16) | 1.8-1 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99) | 0.104-2 libupower-glib1 (>= 0.9.2) | 0.9.15-3 libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.8) | 2:1.0.9~rc3-4 udev | 175-3.1 dbus | 1.5.12-1 pm-utils | 1.4.1-9 Recommends (Version) | Installed ==========================-+-=========== policykit-1 | 0.104-2 Package's Suggests field is empty.
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