Exhausted battery caused freezing

Submitted by ngh..@..box.eu

Assigned to Ali Abdallah @ali

Link to original bug (#15483)

Description

Please test the Xubuntu laptop system with exhausted notebook battery plugged. It should outlast it.

My notebook battery was unattached for many months. (I hadn't know that this can cause the battery to "die".)

I attached the battery. The system booted and behaved for a while normally, except that the orange battery led (which, I guess means charging and normally lights steadily) flashed (twinkled). After a while I opened the power manager, and saw that the charge level is 0% and some "estimating" or "calculating" label, regarding (I guess) the capacity and/or current charge level. Then (not many later) the laptop became unresponsive. No mouse, no keyboard. Even the Ctrl-Alt-F3 key combinations did not work. I pressed for long the power button.

Version: 1.6.1