Battery module: DuplicateOptionError

[4goettma]

After a recent system update on Arch Linux, the battery module outputs
{"full_text": "BatteryChecker: DuplicateOptionError: While reading from '<string>' [line 17]: option 'TYPE' in section 'id10t' already exists", "color": "#FF0000", "name": "i3pystatus.battery.BatteryChecker", "instance": "136733527446192", "markup": "none"}

The string "id10t" originates from https://github.com/enkore/i3pystatus/blob/current/i3pystatus/battery.py#L27
ChatGPT suggested to modify line 21 to super().__init__(default_section="id10t", strict=False) (adding strict=False) but I'm not sure if this is a reasonable fix regarding side effects (it works for me right now at least).

I'm using i3pystatus-git 3.35.r407.gf3c539a-5 installed from the AUR.

I didn't managed yet to find the cause so here is the list of recently upgraded packages.

[enkore]

Can you provide the uevent file? If you don't override this, it should be /sys/class/power_supply/BAT*/uevent. I don't think any relevant semantics have changed in ConfigParser for a long time, so it's probably the kernel outputting the TYPE line twice for some reason. strict=False is a valid workaround for this, but the responsible kernel module ought to be fixed anyway.

[Chocobozzz]

Confirmed from /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/uevent:

DEVTYPE=power_supply
POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=BAT0
POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE=Battery
POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS=Not charging
...
POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_LEVEL=Normal
POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE=Battery
...

[4goettma]

ThinkPad X220 with a single physical battery slot:

/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/uevent:

DEVTYPE=power_supply
POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=BAT0
POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE=Battery
POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS=Discharging
POWER_SUPPLY_PRESENT=1
POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY=Li-ion
POWER_SUPPLY_CYCLE_COUNT=0
[...]
POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY=69
POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_LEVEL=Normal
POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE=Battery
[...]

status.py:

[...]
status.register("battery",
    interval = 10,
    battery_ident="BAT0",
    format="{consumption:.2f}W{status} {{{bar}}} {percentage:.2f}% ⌛{remaining:%E%H:%M}",
    alert=False,
    alert_percentage=10,
    critical_level_percentage=2,
    critical_level_command="systemctl suspend",
    status={
        "DIS": "▼",
        "CHR": "▲",
        "FULL": " ",
    },)
[...]

[chestm007]

Same issue on Metabox : Alpha-V V158PNH
PR created to atleast ignore the error for now