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2017-11-03: sda3 - after upgrade, the Samsung 840 EVO has new firmware

tingo@kg-novena:~$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [armv7l-linux-4.4.0-00156-gc9ba6e8] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Samsung based SSDs
Device Model:     Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB
Serial Number:    S1DBNSBFA68606W
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 8a0783c72
Firmware Version: EXT0DB6Q
User Capacity:    250,059,350,016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4c
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Fri Nov  3 23:19:08 2017 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

ok.

2017-11-03: sda3 - firmware on the SSD is should be upgraded

tingo@kg-novena:~$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [armv7l-linux-4.4.0-00156-gc9ba6e8] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Samsung based SSDs
Device Model:     Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB
Serial Number:    S1DBNSBFA68606W
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 8a0783c72
Firmware Version: EXT0CB6Q
User Capacity:    250,059,350,016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4c
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Fri Nov  3 19:29:33 2017 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

ok.

2017-09-13: sda3 - apt - ran update, 24 packages can be upgraded

tingo@kg-novena:~$ sudo apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done
bluez/oldstable 5.23-2+deb8u1 armhf [upgradable from: 5.23-2+b1]
bluez-hcidump/oldstable 5.23-2+deb8u1 armhf [upgradable from: 5.23-2+b1]
bluez-obexd/oldstable 5.23-2+deb8u1 armhf [upgradable from: 5.23-2+b1]
emacs24/oldstable 24.4+1-5+deb8u1 armhf [upgradable from: 24.4+1-5]
emacs24-bin-common/oldstable 24.4+1-5+deb8u1 armhf [upgradable from: 24.4+1-5]
emacs24-common/oldstable 24.4+1-5+deb8u1 all [upgradable from: 24.4+1-5]
firefox-esr/oldstable 52.3.0esr-1~deb8u2 armhf [upgradable from: 52.2.0esr-1~deb8u1]
git/oldstable 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u4 armhf [upgradable from: 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u3]
git-email/oldstable 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u4 all [upgradable from: 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u3]
git-man/oldstable 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u4 all [upgradable from: 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u3]
gnupg/oldstable 1.4.18-7+deb8u4 armhf [upgradable from: 1.4.18-7+deb8u3]
gpgv/oldstable 1.4.18-7+deb8u4 armhf [upgradable from: 1.4.18-7+deb8u3]
icedove/oldstable 1:52.3.0-4~deb8u2 all [upgradable from: 1:52.2.1-4~deb8u1]
iceweasel/oldstable 52.3.0esr-1~deb8u2 all [upgradable from: 52.2.0esr-1~deb8u1]
libbluetooth3/oldstable 5.23-2+deb8u1 armhf [upgradable from: 5.23-2+b1]
libgd3/oldstable 2.1.0-5+deb8u11 armhf [upgradable from: 2.1.0-5+deb8u9]
libsoup-gnome2.4-1/oldstable 2.48.0-1+deb8u1 armhf [upgradable from: 2.48.0-1]
libsoup2.4-1/oldstable 2.48.0-1+deb8u1 armhf [upgradable from: 2.48.0-1]
libsvn1/oldstable 1.8.10-6+deb8u5 armhf [upgradable from: 1.8.10-6+deb8u4]
libxml2/oldstable 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u5 armhf [upgradable from: 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u4]
lightning/oldstable 1:52.3.0-4~deb8u2 armhf [upgradable from: 1:52.2.1-4~deb8u1]
subversion/oldstable 1.8.10-6+deb8u5 armhf [upgradable from: 1.8.10-6+deb8u4]
tcpdump/oldstable 4.9.2-1~deb8u1 armhf [upgradable from: 4.9.0-1~deb8u1]
thunderbird/oldstable 1:52.3.0-4~deb8u2 armhf [upgradable from: 1:52.2.1-4~deb8u1]

ok.

2017-09-13: sda3 - apt - installed novena-debian-support

tingo@kg-novena:~$ sudo apt show novena-debian-support
Package: novena-debian-support
Version: 1.1-1
Maintainer: Sean Cross <xobs@kosagi.com>
Installed-Size: 48.1 kB
Homepage: http://kosagi.com/
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Download-Size: 2,802 B
APT-Sources: http://repo.novena.io/debian/ jessie/main armhf Packages
Description: Support scripts to allow for updating a Novena Debian system
 The Debian distribution has a common set of standards to allow updating
 various system-critical packages.  The scripts in this package allow
 Novena's boot system to conform to those standards.

contents

tingo@kg-novena:~$ dpkg-query -L novena-debian-support
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/novena-debian-support
/usr/share/doc/novena-debian-support/copyright
/usr/share/doc/novena-debian-support/changelog.Debian.gz
/etc
/etc/kernel
/etc/kernel/postinst.d
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zzz-novena-mkimage
/etc/initramfs-tools
/etc/initramfs-tools/hooks
/etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/novena.hook.sh

I don't know why this package was missing

2017-08-05: sda3 - after a reboot, it now runs Debian 8.9:

tingo@kg-novena:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 
8.9
tingo@kg-novena:~$ uname -a
Linux kg-novena.kg4.no 4.4.0-00156-gc9ba6e8 #12 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 19 14:32:59 SGT 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux

ok.

2017-08-05: sda3 - upgrade via 'apt upgrade'

tingo@kg-novena:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-x
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firefox-esr libjsoncpp0 lightning thunderbird
The following packages will be upgraded:
  base-files bind9-host binutils ca-certificates debconf debconf-i18n debian-archive-keyring debootstrap enigmail exim4-base exim4-config
  exim4-daemon-light ghostscript git git-email git-man gtk2-engines-pixbuf hunspell-en-us icedove iceweasel imagemagick-common
  initramfs-tools irssi libavcodec56 libavformat56 libavresample2 libavutil54 libbind9-90 libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dbg libc6-dev
  libdns-export100 libdns100 libdvdnav4 libexpat1 libffi-dev libffi6 libfreetype6 libgcrypt20 libgnutls-deb0-28 libgnutls-openssl27
  libgraphite2-3 libgs9 libgs9-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgudev-1.0-0 libicu52 libirs-export91 libisc-export95
  libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg-export90 libisccfg90 libjasper1 libjbig2dec0 libldap-2.4-2 liblwres90 libmagickcore-6.q16-2
  libmagickwand-6.q16-2 libnss3 libpam-modules libpam-modules-bin libpam-systemd libpam0g libperl5.20 librtmp1 libsane libsane-common
  libsmbclient libswscale3 libsystemd0 libtasn1-6 libtiff5 libudev1 libwbclient0 libxslt1.1 locales login multiarch-support openvpn
  passwd perl perl-base perl-modules samba-libs sane-utils sudo systemd systemd-sysv tzdata udev unzip vim vim-common vim-runtime
  vim-tiny wget xarchiver xfce4-weather-plugin xserver-common xserver-xorg-core
105 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 175 MB of archives.
After this operation, 42.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
[...]
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u10) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.120+deb8u3) ...
/boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-00156-gc9ba6e8 does not exist. Cannot update.
Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20141019+deb8u3) ...
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs... 0 added, 0 removed; done.
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d....done.

What about /boot?

tingo@kg-novena:~$ ls -l /boot
total 9798
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   44390 May 28  2016 novena.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   39800 Apr 11  2015 novena.recovery.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  302156 May 28  2016 u-boot.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   44032 May 28  2016 u-boot.spl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5995768 May 28  2016 zimage
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3602272 Apr 11  2015 zImage.recovery

ok.

2017-08-05: sda3 - status

tingo@kg-novena:~$ date;swapon --show;tvlm;df -h;uptime
Sat Aug  5 17:00:01 CEST 2017
NAME           TYPE      SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/mmcblk0p2 partition  32M   0B   -1
Aug  5 16:35:09 kg-novena kernel: [11123244.501820] wlan0: authenticate with e0:cb:4e:86:81:0b
Aug  5 16:35:09 kg-novena kernel: [11123244.515621] wlan0: send auth to e0:cb:4e:86:81:0b (try 1/3)
Aug  5 16:35:09 kg-novena kernel: [11123244.519050] wlan0: authenticated
Aug  5 16:35:09 kg-novena kernel: [11123244.529367] wlan0: associate with e0:cb:4e:86:81:0b (try 1/3)
Aug  5 16:35:09 kg-novena kernel: [11123244.532844] wlan0: RX AssocResp from e0:cb:4e:86:81:0b (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=7)
Aug  5 16:35:09 kg-novena kernel: [11123244.532998] wlan0: associated
Aug  5 16:50:45 kg-novena org.a11y.Bus[22082]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Aug  5 16:50:45 kg-novena org.a11y.Bus[22082]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Aug  5 16:50:45 kg-novena org.a11y.atspi.Registry[22154]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Aug  5 16:50:46 kg-novena pulseaudio[22166]: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root       230G  3.8G  214G   2% /
devtmpfs        1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs           1.9G   68K  1.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           1.9G  3.0M  1.9G   1% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           1.9G   16K  1.9G   1% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1   32M  9.6M   23M  30% /boot
tmpfs           380M  4.0K  380M   1% /run/user/117
tmpfs           380M  8.0K  380M   1% /run/user/1000
 17:00:01 up 128 days, 18:27,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.05
tingo@kg-novena:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 
8.7
tingo@kg-novena:~$ uname -a
Linux kg-novena.kg4.no 4.4.0-00156-gc9ba6e8 #12 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 19 14:32:59 SGT 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux

time to upgrade.

2017-03-29: sda3 - senoko - update firmware

tingo@kg-novena:~$ update-senoko
Enabling Senoko reset lines...
[sudo] password for tingo: 
149
out
Hold down the 'Reflash' button on your Senoko battery board...
stm32flash 0.4

http://stm32flash.googlecode.com/

Using Parser : Intel HEX
Interface serial_posix: 115200 8E1
Failed to init device.

Hold down the 'Reflash' button on your Senoko battery board...
[...]
stm32flash 0.4

http://stm32flash.googlecode.com/

Using Parser : Intel HEX
Interface serial_posix: 115200 8E1
Version      : 0x22
Option 1     : 0x00
Option 2     : 0x00
Device ID    : 0x0410 (Medium-density)
- RAM        : 20KiB  (512b reserved by bootloader)
- Flash      : 128KiB (sector size: 4x1024)
- Option RAM : 16b
- System RAM : 2KiB
Write to memory
Erasing memory
Wrote address 0x0800acf0 (100.00%) Done.

Release the 'Reflash' button
Senoko has been updated

back in senoko-os, info still says

ch> info
Kernel:       3.0.0dev
Compiler:     GCC 4.9.2
Architecture: ARMv7-M
Core Variant: Cortex-M3
Port Info:    Advanced kernel mode
Platform:     STM32F10x Performance Line Medium Density
Board:        Senoko STM32F1
Build time:   Feb 24 2016 - 03:29:14

ok.

2017-03-29: sda3 - after the update, Debian 8.7:

tingo@kg-novena:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
8.7
tingo@kg-novena:~$ uname -a
Linux kg-novena.kg4.no 4.4.0-00156-gc9ba6e8 #12 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 19 14:32:59 SGT 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux

ok.

2017-03-29: sda3 - update and upgrade via apt-get update

tingo@kg-novena:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease [63.1 kB]
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie InRelease                                                                       
Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]                         
Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]                                      
Get:4 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Sources [195 kB]
Get:5 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Sources [1,439 B]                                             
Get:6 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free Sources [14 B]                                               
Get:7 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main armhf Packages [354 kB]                       
Get:8 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/main Sources [7,056 kB]                                       
Hit http://repo.novena.io jessie InRelease                                                                   
Get:9 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib armhf Packages [1,138 B]                        
Get:10 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free armhf Packages [14 B]                                     
Get:11 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Translation-en [1,211 B]                        
Get:12 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en [201 kB]                                           
Hit http://repo.novena.io jessie/main Sources                                                                           
Get:13 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free Translation-en [14 B]        
Hit http://repo.novena.io jessie/main armhf Packages                                                   
Get:14 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/contrib Sources [50.8 kB]                                        
Get:15 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/non-free Sources [99.5 kB]         
Get:16 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/main armhf Packages [6,632 kB]       
Get:17 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/contrib armhf Packages [38.1 kB]         
Get:18 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/non-free armhf Packages [62.5 kB]      
Get:19 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/contrib Translation-en [38.5 kB]       
Get:20 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en [4,582 kB]                            
Ign http://repo.novena.io jessie/main Translation-en_US                                                                                 
Ign http://repo.novena.io jessie/main Translation-en                                                                                    
Ign http://repo.novena.io jessie/main Translation-nb                                                                                    
Get:21 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/main Translation-nb [1,302 B]                                                                    
Get:22 http://ftp.us.debian.org jessie/non-free Translation-en [72.1 kB]                                                                
Fetched 19.6 MB in 17s (1,110 kB/s)                                                                                                     
Reading package lists... Done

upgrade

tingo@kg-novena:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  icedove iceweasel
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apt apt-utils base-files bash bind9-host ca-certificates curl dbus dbus-x11 e2fslibs e2fsprogs eject exim4-base exim4-config
  exim4-daemon-light file ghostscript gstreamer0.10-gconf gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-x imagemagick-common irssi libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12 libbind9-90
  libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dbg libc6-dev libcairo-gobject2 libcairo2 libcomerr2 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libdbus-1-3
  libdns-export100 libdns100 libevent-2.0-5 libgd3 libgme0 libgnutls-deb0-28 libgnutls-openssl27 libgs9 libgs9-common
  libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libgstreamer1.0-0 libgudev-1.0-0 libhogweed2 libicu52
  libio-socket-ssl-perl libirs-export91 libisc-export95 libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg-export90 libisccfg90 libjasper1 libjbig2dec0
  liblcms2-2 liblwres90 libmagic1 libmagickcore-6.q16-2 libmagickwand-6.q16-2 libmpg123-0 libnettle4 libpam-modules libpam-modules-bin
  libpam-runtime libpam-systemd libpam0g libpcsclite1 libpng12-0 libpurple-bin libpurple0 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5
  libqt5network5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5widgets5 libsmbclient libss2 libssl1.0.0 libsystemd0 libtevent0 libtiff5 libudev1 libwbclient0
  libxml2 libxpm4 libxslt1.1 locales login multiarch-support ntfs-3g openssl passwd pidgin pidgin-data samba-libs sed systemd
  systemd-sysv tar tcpdump tzdata udev vim vim-common vim-runtime vim-tiny wireless-regdb
117 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 88.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 3,405 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
[...]
/boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-00156-gc9ba6e8 does not exist. Cannot update.
Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20141019+deb8u2) ...
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs... 10 added, 10 removed; done.
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d....done.

hmm, a possible problem with the initrd there?

2017-03-29: sda3 - battery - I tried using the prime button on the senoko board - no change.

2017-03-29: sda3 - battery - I reboot the senoko

ch> reboot
Rebooting...

Starting Senoko (Ver 2.3, git version e065377b73a252f8e0ceb8aecf8060d6e82748ad)

ChibiOS/RT Shell
ch> uptime
13.192 seconds

and a few commands later

ch> stats
Manufacturer:       error 0xFE000000
Part name:          error 0xFE000000
Firmware version:   error 0xFE000000
State:              error 0xFE000000
Time until full:    error 0xFE000000
Time until empty:   error 0xFE000000
Chemistry:          error 0xFE000000
Serial number:      error 0xFE000000


System halt!
Registers:
IP: 0x55555555  SP: 0x20000d58
LR: 0x080010ab  PC: 0x080010b6
R0-3:  0x00000008  0x00000020  0x00000000  0x40013800
R4-7:  0x08009b30  0x200012d8  0x55555555  0x55555555
R8-11: 0x55555555  0x55555555  0x55555555  0x55555555
Reason: i2cStop
Threads:
    addr      pc    stack prio refs   state time  name

Starting Senoko (Ver 2.3, git version e065377b73a252f8e0ceb8aecf8060d6e82748ad)

ChibiOS/RT Shell

ouch!

2017-03-29: sda3 - battery - senoko says:

ch> gg pfreset
Resetting permanent failure flags... Error: 1000000
ch> gg reboot
Rebooting the gas gauge chip... Error: FE000000
ch> gg it
Starting ImpedenceTrackTM algorithm... Error: 0xFE000000
hmmm, not good. stats then
ch> stats
Manufacturer:       error 0xFE000000
Part name:          error 0xFE000000
Firmware version:   error 0xFE000000
State:              error 0xFE000000
Time until full:    error 0xFE000000
Time until empty:   error 0xFE000000
Chemistry:          error 0xFE000000
Serial number:      error 0xFE000000
Cycle count:        error 0xFE000000
Battery health:     error 0xFE000000
Charge:             error 0xFE000000
Max capacity:       error 0xFE000000
Design capacity:    error 0xFE000000
Temperature:        2184.5 C
Voltage:            error 0xFE000000
Current:            error 0xFE000000
Average current:    error 0xFE000000
Target voltage:     error 0xFE000000
Target current:     error 0xFE000000
Number of cells:    error 0x1000000
Cell 1 voltage:     error 0xFE000000
Cell 2 voltage:     error 0xFE000000
Cell 3 voltage:     error 0xFE000000
Cell 4 voltage:     error 0xFE000000
Charge status:      0x5555
    Charging allowed?   yes
    Can suspend?        suspended
    Can precharge?      no
    Can maintenance?    yes
    Temperature limit?  no
    Temperature limit?  yes
    Can fastcharge?     no
    Pulse charging?     yes
    Pulse disable CHG?  no
    Cell balancing?     in-progress
    Precharge timeout?  no
    Fastcharge timeout? yes
    Overcharge OV?      no
    Overcharge OC?      yes
    Overcharge?         no
    Battery empty?      yes
Alarms:
    TERMINATE CHARGE ALARM
    OVER TEMP ALARM
    REMAINING TIME ALARM
Charge state:
    Battery discharging/relaxing
    Battery fully discharged
STATUS ERROR CODE: 0x5
Unable to read safety alerts
Unable to read safety status
ch>                

not good at all.

2017-03-29: sda3 - battery - reconnected it (taps first, then molex connector). upower still says:

tingo@kg-novena:~$ date
Wed Mar 29 21:37:54 CEST 2017
tingo@kg-novena:~$ upower -d
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_sbs_0_000b
  native-path:          sbs-0-000b
  power supply:         no
  updated:              Wed 29 Mar 2017 09:36:03 PM CEST (113 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  battery
    present:             no
    rechargeable:        no
    state:               unknown
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              0 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         0 Wh
    energy-full-design:  0 Wh
    energy-rate:         0 W
    percentage:          0%
    icon-name:          'battery-missing-symbolic'

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_senoko_ac_supply
  native-path:          senoko-ac-supply
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Fri 07 Oct 2016 10:26:04 PM CEST (14944312 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  line-power
    warning-level:       none
    online:              yes
    icon-name:          'ac-adapter-symbolic'

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/DisplayDevice
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Thu 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 AM CET (1490816276 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  unknown
    warning-level:       none
    icon-name:          'battery-missing-symbolic'

Daemon:
  daemon-version:  0.99.1
  on-battery:      no
  lid-is-closed:   no
  lid-is-present:  yes
  critical-action: PowerOff

hmm.

2017-03-24: sda3 - I disconnected the battery (molex first, then taps connector). Now upower -d says:

tingo@kg-novena:~$ upower -d
Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_sbs_0_000b
  native-path:          sbs-0-000b
  vendor:               Texas Inst.
  model:                bq20z95
  serial:               0001
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Fri 24 Mar 2017 08:26:03 PM CET (97 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               pending-charge
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              76.51 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         85.01 Wh
    energy-full-design:  81.26 Wh
    energy-rate:         0 W
    percentage:          91%
    temperature:         24 degrees C
    capacity:            100%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    icon-name:          'battery-full-charging-symbolic'

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_senoko_ac_supply
  native-path:          senoko-ac-supply
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Fri 07 Oct 2016 10:26:04 PM CEST (14511696 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  line-power
    warning-level:       none
    online:              yes
    icon-name:          'ac-adapter-symbolic'

Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/DisplayDevice
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Thu 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 AM CET (1490383660 seconds ago)
  has history:          no
  has statistics:       no
  battery
    present:             yes
    state:               unknown
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              76.51 Wh
    energy-full:         85.01 Wh
    energy-rate:         0 W
    percentage:          91%
    icon-name:          'battery-missing-symbolic'

Daemon:
  daemon-version:  0.99.1
  on-battery:      no
  lid-is-closed:   no
  lid-is-present:  yes
  critical-action: PowerOff

hmmm...

tingo@kg-novena:~$ date
Fri Mar 24 20:30:31 CET 2017

date and time is correct.