Hi, It seems the bug, at least in my case, was caused by the acpi battery kernel module reporting the battery as connected and disconnected continuously.
Since I upgraded my kernel to 3.2.18-1 the battery icon stopped flipping on and off. To me the problem is solved and the bug report can be closed. Thank you and have a nice day, Paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org