Laptop battery going flat when shutdown

[Mark Greenwood]

Hi all,

Anybody else noticed their laptop battery going flat when they have shut down? It's as if it isn't properly shutting down at all. 

I'm running Lucid on a Sony VAIO. I usually don't disconnect it from mains power, but last night I shut the laptop down, unplugged the mains adaptor and left the laptop on a shelf. When I came to it this morning the battery was totally flat.

I thought it might be just my Sony, but I tried it with my Acer Aspire One (running Ubuntu Lucid Netbook Edition) and that did the same thing. I'm not yet ready to accept the "amazing battery-draining shelf" explanation :-)

Mark