HAL battery event flood? Help

[Sean]

Hello, Was wondering if anyone could provide some advice on an issue I
am seeing with Hal on a fresh gutsy install. The symptom is when I start
my laptop with a second battery installed the hald process consumes like
40% of my CPU continuously.  Running hald in with verbose output shows
that it is getting hammered with battery events, like 100 per second.
My first reaction is that this is what is causing the CPU usage as I do
not see this with one battery. What I don't understand is hald the
'victim' of something else gone haywire or the cause :)

Here is a sample (full log attached):
[4641]: 09:28:32.890 [D] addon-acpi.c:227: battery event
09:28:32.890 [I] hald_dbus.c:2849: entering, local_interface=1
09:28:32.890 [D] hald_dbus.c:2858: udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_BAT2
09:28:32.905 [D] acpi.c:176: Current voltage is unknown, smaller than 50% or greater than design
[4641]: 09:28:32.910 [D] addon-acpi.c:192: event is 'battery BAT1 00000080 00000001
'
[4641]: 09:28:32.910 [D] addon-acpi.c:227: battery event
09:28:32.910 [I] hald_dbus.c:2849: entering, local_interface=1
09:28:32.910 [D] hald_dbus.c:2858: udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_BAT1
09:28:32.929 [D] acpi.c:176: Current voltage is unknown, smaller than 50% or greater than design
[4641]: 09:28:32.932 [D] addon-acpi.c:192: event is 'battery BAT2 00000080 00000001
'
[4641]: 09:28:32.932 [D] addon-acpi.c:227: battery event
09:28:32.932 [I] hald_dbus.c:2849: entering, local_interface=1
09:28:32.932 [D] hald_dbus.c:2858: udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_BAT2
09:28:32.950 [D] acpi.c:176: Current voltage is unknown, smaller than 50% or greater than design
[4641]: 09:28:32.951 [D] addon-acpi.c:192: event is 'battery BAT1 00000080 00000001

This is on a fresh install of gutsy, hal 5.9.1.

Any advice is appreciated! 

Thanks,
- Sean Bridges
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