Blinking red battery light on XO-1

[Hal Murray]

quozl at laptop.org said:
> To avoid it powering off, type lid-off and press enter.  Yes, you only have
> eight seconds to do this. 

The printout said that, but I didn't even get started typing before it timed 
out.

I'm not sure where 8 seconds came from.  If that happened often enough I'd 
probably be able to do it fast enough.  But that was the first time I had 
seen it.  I wasn't quick enough to read and understand and type.  Remember, I 
was trying to not destroy the evidence so I was going slowly.

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Something similar happened a few months ago which is why I saved Richard's 
message.

I have a hack script that reboots the XO every 4 hours.  It's got a patch to 
check
  /sys/class/power_supply/olpc-battery/error
and log the answer instead of rebooting.  The error was 20

(Sorry I didn't remember to look there earlier.)



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