Power Management problem when battery charge level is critically low

[Derek Broughton]

Res wrote:

> 
>   On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> 
>> On Ubuntu Hardy Heron, I have a problem:
>> When my laptop (Lenovo 3000 C200 8922 A15) reaches a critical low
>> level of battery, system doesn't shutdown cleanly, so after power on
>> again, I have to wait to fsck make its task. That's is too annoying. I
>> don't understand if it's a powernowd problem. So I enabled
> 
> 
> Sergio, there have been many threads here and at ubuntuforums where it
> appears only a minute number of users actually have this working properly,
> those that do, most likey use KDE and not gnome power manager.
> 
> An alternative is to install GPM from Gnome source, this problem is many
> months old and ubuntu folk appear incapable of resolving, or unwilling to
> update the GPM package.

And I have to report that, having given instructions that had always worked
for me before, on Thursday I had accidentally pulled out my power
connection and had my system suddenly stop when the battery went dead,
without running hibernate as it should...
-- 
derek