Issues with upgrade 12.04 to 14.04 (battery drain, freezes…)

[ariel6]

I've been using ubuntu 12.04 for over a year without any issues with my laptop (MSI GT70.) It has an integrated intel graphics card and an nvidia GTX 870M. Therefore, I have been using the bumblebee project and it's been working great. When runing 'optirun' command with the applications I got the power led switch from white to orange to show that it was indeed using the nvidia gpu and after closing the app it switched back to white. So far so go. Plus the battery was lasting over 2 and a half hours with full charge, playing some videos in full screen for example.
A few weeks ago I upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04. I installed the bumblebee project as well but now the battery lasts at least 40 minutes. That's the first issue.
I thought it may help to do a clean start formatting the root partition (on an ssd) as well as the home partition (on an hdd) with gparted from a liveUSB. But when I boot from it, after it starts the complete systems, it freezes and I cannot even shut it down (ctrl+alt f2,3,....). Could this be related to the dual graphic cards?. BTW, I'm using ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso.
Here is what I get with powertop (tunables tab) with the power cable unconnected in case it helps:



Bad Wireless Power Saving for interface wlan0
Bad NMI watchdog should be turned off
Bad VM writeback timeout
Bad Enable SATA link power Managmenet for host0
Bad Enable SATA link power Managmenet for host1
Bad Enable SATA link power Managmenet for host2
Bad Enable SATA link power Managmenet for host3
Bad Enable SATA link power Managmenet for host4
Bad Enable SATA link power Managmenet for host5
Bad Autosuspend for USB device USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse [Logitech]
Bad Autosuspend for USB device MSI EPF USB [MSI EPF USB]
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #5
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation HM87 Express LPC Controller
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode]
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device NVIDIA Corporation GK104M [GeForce GTX 870M]
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5227 PCI Express Card Reader
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI
Bad Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4
Good Enable Audio codec power management
Good Bluetooth device interface status
Good Autosuspend for USB device xHCI Host Controller [usb4]
Good Autosuspend for unknown USB device 3-11 (0cf3:3004)
Good Autosuspend for USB device xHCI Host Controller [usb3]
Good Autosuspend for unknown USB device 2-1 (8087:8000)
Good Autosuspend for USB device EHCI Host Controller [usb1]
Good Autosuspend for USB device EHCI Host Controller [usb2]
Good Autosuspend for unknown USB device 1-1 (8087:8008)
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2200 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Good Runtime PM for PCI Device Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller
Good Wake-on-lan status for device wlan0
Good Wake-on-lan status for device eth0
Good Using 'ondemand' cpufreq governor

Any kind of help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[dino99]

try to select the discrete graphic chip from the bios/uefi
if that works, then you will be safe to glance at logs to find the culprit
or boot in recovery mode

[ariel6]

try to select the discrete graphic chip from the bios/uefi
I don't have that option. And it freezes when I boot from the liveUSB.

I installed 12.04 and then upgraded it to 14.04 rather than directly installing 14.04 from the liveUSB

[ariel6]

I ran tlp-stat and I got this:


+++ Battery Status
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/manufacturer = MSI
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/model_name = BTY-M6D
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/cycle_count = (not supported)
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_full_design = 7800 [mAh]
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_full = 2466 [mAh]
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_now = 2387 [mAh]

So it means that the battery is not fully charged even though it says 96%. It also says charged rather than keep charging it until it reaches 100%. Why is charge_full not equal to charge_full_design?


Is there any way to solve this issue? Or it might be really a hardware issue with the battery rather than a software issue with the upgrade?

Thank you.