Try adding the Battery Charge Monitor applet to your Gnome panel and compare it's state with the Power Manager applet. Also look in /proc/acpi/battery/<battery ID> and "cat info" and "cat state" to see what ACPI is reporting when the problem occurs.
-- Power-manager reports incorrect battery percentage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206889 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs