Package: acpid Version: 1:2.0.0-1 Severity: normal Real problem was that my laptop's battery is almost dead, at least for the acpi subsystem. When AC is switched off, I don't get a battery event because there is no battery as per the OS. But there is still like 3 minutes of battery remaining.
So the events I get is only ac_adapter. My requirement was to trap events and fire up "shutdown in 1 minute". And abort the shutdown if returned to AC within a minute I have done that with the attached scripts. Maybe we can put than in the examples. Regards, Ritesh -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages acpid depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii module-init-tools 3.11-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages acpid recommends: ii acpi-support-base 0.130-1 scripts for handling base ACPI eve acpid suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
event=ac_adapter.* action=/etc/acpi/actions/acpi-power-mgmt.sh
#!/bin/sh POWER_STATE=`acpi -V | grep "Adapter" | awk '{print $3}'` if [ $POWER_STATE = "on-line" ]; then pkill -09 shutdown elif [ $POWER_STATE = "off-line" ]; then /sbin/shutdown -h 1 & else echo -en "Incorrect power state\n" echo -en "Exit with error\n" exit 1; fi