update: out of curiosity, set threshold levels of _critical and _action to 93 and 92 percent respectively. (battery fully charged)
Killed and started gnome-power-manager --no-daemon --verbose and waited. I when reached 92%, another minute passed, when I received a warning that it is going to hibernate NOW. And indeed it did. gnome-power-manager produced NO output on stdout or stderr, except for this line _after_ waking up from hibernate: (gnome-power-manager:3975): devkit-power-gobject-DEBUG: DBUS timed out, but recovering So at least I know that I was able to catch messages from gpm. -- Action on critical battery is not triggered - gnome-power-manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/481576 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