Got a new battery for my laptop, and the laptop with the new battery shuts down a few seconds after unplugging the charger. This is not the ubuntu shut down, but a hard one, like what would have happened to a desktop if it was unplugged from power.
Additional facts:
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The bios recognizes the new battery, and can run its calibrate on it, to drain
it. Draining takes about 2 hours, with fan and screen running, so the battery is not outright
disfunctional. -
It seems that shut down happens on SSD access. I can boot, only on the battery, a clean Ubuntu 16.04 from usb in "live" mode, and it would run until I'd click on the SSD folder to see what's inside. Then it would shut down.
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The battery supplier replaced the battery two times, all three batteries
have the same problem. No problem with the original battery.
The question is – can this be an Ubuntu problem, perhaps the OS somehow not getting along with the new battery's controller?
Ubuntu: 14.04, Laptop: Samsung np900x.
Update:
There is a BIOS testing utility, as described here. It reports many ACPI related errors – log. Not yet sure what to do about them.
Best Answer
I think you may have a system with a buggy or out of spec ACPI firmware. Ideally you should be able to disable ACPI in the BIOS as shown below:
Another option would be to use the acpi=off kernel parameter. You can test this by editing the vmlinuz line at boot and adding the acpi=off parameter. to make it permanent, edit
/etc/default/grubwith your favorite text editor; find the line:and add the acpi=off parameter to the space separated list of parameters between the quotes.