This script will wake up the battery monitor. It looks like the problem may actually be in upower. The command is from an earlier thread on the same bug from 9.10 (it was never fixed there either), with some tweaks for the change to upower.
#!/bin/sh # magic trick for waking up stuck gnome-power-manager battery monitor dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1 org.freedesktop.UPower.Device.Refresh -- shows "laptop battery is charged" at the same time as an almost-empty icon https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579513 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs