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GNOME desktop is not displaying battery status

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From: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357 <at> gmail.com>
To: 39203 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39203: GNOME desktop is not displaying battery status
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:02:42 -0700

It appears gnome-tweaks does not fix this issue. I'm out of ideas.
Please help!

On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 15:01 -0700, Jesse Gibbons wrote:
> It looks like the problem was introduced in
> df45af90413906b18710d8c51c44afd5b92d6db6 when upower was updated to
> version 99.11. I also expect it is related to gnome-tweaks, which is
> out of date.
> 
> I'm going to see if updating gnome-tweaks fixes it. If so, I'll send
> an
> update patch. If not, we can determine if it's worth reverting
> upower.
> 
> On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 13:41 -0700, Jesse Gibbons wrote:
> > Update:
> > Some testing reveals this bug was introduced somewhere between
> > 10576acbbf496a051d488c2832f1e474ef6074f3 and
> > d75a0cd98649c610c8c6ed05011233a49af156e9
> > 
> > I'm going to continue looking for the exact commit. I'll report
> > when
> > I
> > find it. I have some suspicions, but it's better to know for
> > certain.
> > 
> > What is the protocol for undoing a commit that breaks something?
> > 
> > On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 08:34 -0700, Jesse Gibbons wrote:
> > > At the top-right corner of the GNOME desktop I expect to see my
> > > laptop's battery status. Furthermore, when my laptop's battery
> > > drains
> > > to a low percentage I expect to see a notification warning me
> > > before
> > > it
> > > dies. This is not the case.
> > > 
> > > I temporarily fixed this by rolling back my system generations,
> > > but
> > > since I want to add some services I don't want to keep it like
> > > this.
> > > I
> > > don't know what the issue is, but gnome-desktop-service-type and
> > > its
> > > dependencies are my primary suspects.
> > > 
> > > I ran guix system list-generations and got the following results:
> > > 
> > > The battery status displays with a system built in commit
> > > a066e289ab8ea971336515b53dd5340cbdf90904
> > > This commit uses Linux-Libre 5.4.6 in case that's important.
> > > 
> > > It does not display with a system build in commit
> > > 6e02ef79f574855db28e23d891db690925119e7b
> > > This commit uses Linux-Libre 5.4.12.
> > > 
> > > I hope this information is helpful in fixing this issue. I will
> > > work
> > > on
> > > determining which commit breaks it.
> > > 
> > > -Jesse
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 

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