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Title:
Power Management only has the option of "Do Nothing" for critically low battery in 17.10
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/2018/03/19/Power-Management-only-has-the-option-of-_Do-Nothing_-for-critically-low-battery-in-17.10
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March 19, 2018
Edited: March 22, 2018
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Step 1: Check gsettings
There are two options you can check in the terminal:
$ gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power critical-battery-action
'suspend'
$ gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-low
'10'
Then to change them use:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power critical-battery-action suspend
$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-low 10
Note on my system they are just fine, so I changed them back to what they were in the first place for sake of example.
Step 2: Check upower
Gnome power management utilizes upower to do the heavy lifting. To ensure it is running and collecting battery statistics as it should, use:
$ upower -d
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_ACAD
native-path: ACAD
power supply: yes
updated: Sun 18 Mar 2018 02:28:25 PM MDT (135878 seconds ago)
has history: no
has statistics: no
line-power
warning-level: none
online: yes
icon-name: 'ac-adapter-symbolic'
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1
native-path: BAT1
vendor: COMPAL
model: PABAS0241231
serial: 41167
power supply: yes
updated: Tue 20 Mar 2018 04:12:10 AM MDT (53 seconds ago)
has history: yes
has statistics: yes
battery
present: yes
rechargeable: yes
state: charging
warning-level: none
energy: 48.2544 Wh
energy-empty: 0 Wh
energy-full: 93.3552 Wh
energy-full-design: 96.48 Wh
energy-rate: 0.0044914 W
voltage: 14.76 V
percentage: 51%
capacity: 96.7612%
technology: lithium-ion
icon-name: 'battery-good-charging-symbolic'
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/mouse_0003o046Do101Ax0008
native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.2/0003:046D:C52B.0003/0003:046D:101A.0008
vendor: Logitech, Inc.
model: Performance MX
serial: E6CE4571
power supply: no
updated: Tue 20 Mar 2018 04:12:09 AM MDT (54 seconds ago)
has history: yes
has statistics: no
mouse
present: yes
rechargeable: yes
state: discharging
warning-level: none
percentage: 55%
icon-name: 'battery-good-symbolic'
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/keyboard_0003o046Do2010x0009
native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.2/0003:046D:C52B.0003/0003:046D:2010.0009
vendor: Logitech, Inc.
model: K800
serial: 6DB54BFE
power supply: no
updated: Tue 20 Mar 2018 04:12:09 AM MDT (54 seconds ago)
has history: yes
has statistics: no
keyboard
present: yes
rechargeable: yes
state: discharging
warning-level: none
percentage: 90%
icon-name: 'battery-full-symbolic'
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/ups_hiddev3
native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4.4/1-1.4.4:1.0/usbmisc/hiddev3
vendor: CPS
model: CP550HGa
serial: BFBB104#BI1.g
power supply: yes
updated: Tue 20 Mar 2018 04:12:51 AM MDT (12 seconds ago)
has history: yes
has statistics: yes
ups
present: yes
state: fully-charged
warning-level: none
time to empty: 37.5 minutes
percentage: 100%
icon-name: 'battery-full-charged-symbolic'
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/DisplayDevice
power supply: yes
updated: Tue 20 Mar 2018 04:10:14 AM MDT (169 seconds ago)
has history: no
has statistics: no
ups
present: yes
state: fully-charged
warning-level: none
time to empty: 37.5 minutes
percentage: 100%
icon-name: 'battery-full-charged-symbolic'
Daemon:
daemon-version: 0.99.4
on-battery: no
lid-is-closed: no
lid-is-present: yes
critical-action: HybridSleep
First run this command when the laptop is plugged in. Then unplug the laptop and run the command after some time and ensure battery remaining time has reduced appropriately.
Last Step - Low level hibernation
This is the last step which would be taken after exhausting all other steps. This step doesn’t require Ubuntu or Unity or Gnome or gsettings or upower. It only requires systemd, udev and cron which are built into almost all Linux Distros with or without GUI (Desktop).
From ArchLinux:
Hibernate on low battery level
If your battery sends events to udev whenever it (dis)charges by 1%, you can use this udev rule to automatically hibernate the system when battery level is critical, and thus prevent all unsaved work from being lost.
Note: Not all batteries report discharge events. Test by running udevadm monitor --property while on battery and see if any events are reported. You should wait at least 1% drop. If no events are reported and /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/alarm is non-zero then the battery will likely trigger an event when BAT0/energy_now drops below the alarm value, and the udev rule will work as long as the percentage math works out. Some laptops have an option for this disabled in BIOS by default.
$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/99-lowbat.rules
# Suspend the system when battery level drops to 5% or lower
SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", ATTR{status}=="Discharging", ATTR{capacity}=="[0-5]", RUN+="/usr/bin/systemctl hibernate"
This rule will be repeated whenever the condition is set. As such, when resuming from hibernate when the battery is critical, the computer will hibernate directly. Some laptops do not boot beyond a certain battery level, so the rule could be adjusted accordingly.
Batteries can jump to a lower value instead of discharging continuously, therefore a udev string matching pattern for all capacities 0 through 5 is used.
Other rules can be added to perform different actions depending on power supply status and/or capacity.
If your system has no or missing ACPI events, use cron with the following script:
#!/bin/sh
acpi -b | awk -F'[,:%]' '{print $2, $3}' | {
read -r status capacity
if [ "$status" = Discharging -a "$capacity" -lt 5 ]; then
logger "Critical battery threshold"
systemctl hibernate
fi
}
Testing events
One way to test udev rules is to have them create a file when they are run. For example:
$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/98-discharging.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", ATTR{status}=="Discharging", RUN+="/usr/bin/touch /home/example/discharging"
This creates a file at /home/example/discharging when the laptop charger is unplugged. You can test whether the rule worked by unplugging your laptop and looking for this file. For more advanced udev rule testing, see Udev#Testing rules before loading.
Summary
There are more steps to post between Step #2 and “Last Step” but these will be posted as OP reveals more details after testing. In the mean time the “Last Step” should reduce more half-way answers like simply reporting percentage remaining.