Bug 755412

Summary:	Power Management settings are ignored
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Larry O'Leary <loleary>
Component:	gnome-power-manager	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <hughsient>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	16	CC:	fschwarz, hughsient, spacewar
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Description Larry O'Leary 2011-11-21 04:08:51 UTC

Description of problem:
Just installed F16 and find that the computer never suspends after inactivity. I have explicitly set the power management options using DConf:

org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power
  sleep-inactive-ac true
  sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 60

Additionally, the power button appears to be configured to perform a suspend but when I press it a shutdown is performed.

From the looks of it, either power management just isn't running at all or the configuration is being ignored.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.2.1-1


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use dconf-editor to set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac to true and sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 60 
2. Close dconf-editor
3. Wait a couple of minutes
  
Actual results:
Nothing happens

Expected results:
Computer should have suspended

Comment 1 Richard Shaw 2012-01-12 14:57:26 UTC

I'm extremely surprised that this has not gotten any attention.

I recently upgraded (via preupgrade) my wife to F16 and it appears all of her power settings are being completely ignored. Nothing happens when the lid of her laptop is closed and if she forces it to sleep it doesn't come back up (although that's probably a kernel bug).

Comment 2 Felix Schwarz 2012-01-12 15:37:17 UTC

As larry said in the first comment, also the power-* settings are ignored. This might be easier to reproduce than waiting.

Comment 3 Richard Shaw 2012-01-12 16:00:37 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> As larry said in the first comment, also the power-* settings are ignored. This
> might be easier to reproduce than waiting.

I'm not sure what you mean. Unless someone else offers a solution or workaround, I don't have much choice but to wait for a response from the person responsible for this package/component.

Comment 4 Felix Schwarz 2012-01-20 08:19:15 UTC

just wanted to mention that with a recent upgrade the power-* settings started to work for me in F16 even though I didn't see a gnome-power-manager update (maybe acpid?).

Comment 5 Richard Shaw 2012-01-22 14:39:37 UTC

The root cause of the problem may be the same as this bug I reported:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773681

Have you checked to make sure gnome-settings-daemon is running after you log in?

I had to move ~/.local to a backup and let it get recreated and both the mouse and power settings started working. The annoying part is that there was no obvious error message that gnome-settings-daemon was failing to start or crashing (not sure which was happening).

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