[Solved] batterymon problem.

[Shador]

That still doesn't account for my getting the same error message as previously with the other install.

Then the message is probably unrelated and unproblematic (just a warning). Therefor I can only repeat: What exact problems are you experiencing? Program doesn't start, it crashes, feature/functionality xy doesn't work...?

Regarding acpi, I was more looking towards disabled acpi in the kernel by a kernel parameter.

[mimosa]

A small point - "locate" hasn't got its database yet on at elast one of those machines. You need to do:

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#updatedb

[globetrotterdk]

Some problem with settings. Either it's referring to gtk themes or some internal theming system of batterymon. In the first case per-user gtk theme settings would be troublesome in the latter case batterymon's own settings.

Thanks for the reply. I am getting the same error message on the EeePC as I posted in reply to mimosa when I execute the following command

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# locate libnotify
locate: fatal error: Could not find user database '/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db':  No such file or directory

Here is the following command on the EeePC

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user[~]$ cd /opt/batterymon
user[batterymon]$ ls -l | grep batterymon.py
-rwx------ 1 user users 17389 May  1  2009 batterymon.py

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user[bin]$ ls -l | grep batterymon
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46 Feb  9 12:31 batterymon

I then ran

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chmod +x /opt/batterymon/batterymon.py

The result is now

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$ ls -l | grep batterymon
-rwx--x--x 1 root root 46 Feb  9 12:31 batterymon

That doesn't look similar to the other files. Should't it be

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user[~]$ cd /opt/batterymon
user[batterymon]$ ls -l | grep batterymon.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 17389 May  1  2009 batterymon.py

?

[globetrotterdk]

That still doesn't account for my getting the same error message as previously with the other install.

Then the message is probably unrelated and unproblematic (just a warning). Therefor I can only repeat: What exact problems are you experiencing? Program doesn't start, it crashes, feature/functionality xy doesn't work...?

Regarding acpi, I was more looking towards disabled acpi in the kernel by a kernel parameter.

Sorry, batterymon refuses to start.

Edit: Both systems are setup to start batterymon at log-in, however batterymon neither starts at log-in nor when I use alt-f2 "batterymon"

[globetrotterdk]

A small point - "locate" hasn't got its database yet on at elast one of those machines. You need to do:

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#updatedb

Cheers. libnotify now returns

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# locate libnotify
/var/log/packages/libnotify-0.5.2-i486-1
/var/log/scripts/libnotify-0.5.2-i486-1
/usr/include/libnotify
/usr/include/libnotify/notify-features.h
/usr/include/libnotify/notify-enum-types.h
/usr/include/libnotify/notify.h
/usr/include/libnotify/notification.h
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify/libnotify-notify.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify/ch01.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify/right.png
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify/libnotify.devhelp2
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify/index.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify/style.css
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify/libnotify.devhelp
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify/up.png
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify/index.sgml
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify/home.png
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify/libnotify-notification.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify/left.png
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libnotify.pc
/usr/lib/libnotify.so.1.3.0
/usr/lib/libnotify.so
/usr/lib/libnotify.la
/usr/lib/libnotify.so.1
/usr/doc/libnotify-0.5.2
/usr/doc/libnotify-0.5.2/ChangeLog
/usr/doc/libnotify-0.5.2/README
/usr/doc/libnotify-0.5.2/libnotify.SlackBuild
/usr/doc/libnotify-0.5.2/AUTHORS
/usr/doc/libnotify-0.5.2/COPYING
/usr/doc/libnotify-0.5.2/html

[mimosa]

To make locate work, you need to update its database, see my previous post.

Regarding libnotify, I suggest ensuring everything's there by:

#slapt-get -i libnotify notify-python

I'm not sure what those permissions should be but the key thing must be execute permission, which you now have ('x').

As Shador says, it may help if you can say more specifically what is going on - does batterymon run at all?

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Also, assuming it does, if only to complain and die, permissions aren't the problem. It seems the script starts, but either something is missing, or something is wrong in the configuration.

[globetrotterdk]

Thanks. Installing notify-python got rid of the libnotify install error on my EeePC. batterymon.py will only run from within the /opt/batterymon/ folder on both both the Dell and the EeePC. The errors when running are the same

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$ cd /opt/batterymon
user[batterymon]$ ./batterymon.py
2012-02-10 15:29:28,661 - batterymon - ERROR - org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty: No property battery.remaining_time on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_battery_BAT0

Trying to run batterymon from my home directory results in the same error on both systems, when run from the terminal

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user[~]$ batterymon
2012-02-10 15:35:25,776 - batterymon - ERROR - Theme default does not exists, falling back to default
2012-02-10 15:35:25,776 - batterymon - ERROR - Theme default does not exists, falling back to default
2012-02-10 15:35:25,777 - batterymon - CRITICAL - Default theme does not exists, fatal
2012-02-10 15:35:25,777 - batterymon - CRITICAL - Default theme does not exists, fatal

Those are the same errors that I received when trying to use a semantic link for sunflower.py

[mimosa]

I'm not sure about the first error you posted, which looks like some sort of problem with how batterymon actually does its stuff. Did you try Shador's suggestion about modprobe?

The second problem looks like something is wrong with how the launcher script is calling batterymon. I'd suggest double-checking that everything is exactly as it should be, permissions correct, in the right place, the contents of the launcher script are correct and correspond to the location of batterymon.py. Compare with Sunflower ... Also, have a look at batterymon.py (cat batterymon.py | less) in case the file's been overwritten or something.

EDIT

Also wherever the launcher script is, is it in your $PATH? It should be ...

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echo $PATH

[globetrotterdk]

I think I have solved the problems now. It seems to have been a combination of problems with the way the /opt/batterymon directory as well as sub-directories and files' permissions were set, and the /usr/local/bin/batterymon file I was using. Thanks for all of your help and thanks to Shador as well.

[mimosa]

Great!

By the way, to see the permissions, etc. of a directory, add the -d switch:

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ls -dl directory

otherwise you get the directory's *contents*.

It's possible you've got over-restrictive default permissions on one or other of those machines. Someone had a problem a little like that a while back - in fact, maybe it was you? Sorry, memory like a sieve ...

The output of

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umask

should normally be 0022 if it hasn't been altered.

EDIT

No, I see it was Zievatron who had that problem. Another case of a fresh install ...