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[Bug 860227] Re: greeter session puts the host to sleep after 30 minutes idle

 

Recursive parsing of the settings suggests that sleep-inactive is
disabled, but this is apparently ignored, for some reason:

$ sudo -u gdm gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power active true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-hibernate 'hibernate'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-power 'interactive'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-sleep 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-suspend 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power critical-battery-action 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-brightness 30
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-ac false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-time 10
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-battery-action 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power notify-perhaps-recall true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-action 2
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-critical 3
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-low 10
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power priority 1
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-display-ac 600
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-display-battery 600
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 1800
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-timeout 1800
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-type 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-action 120
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-critical 300
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-low 1200
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power use-time-for-policy true
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Title:
  greeter session puts the host to sleep after 30 minutes idle

Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Since version 3.x, on a fresh install, GDM uses the gnome-power-
  manager defaults as-is for its greeter session. This has the
  unfortunate consequence of putting the host to sleep after 30 minutes,
  which is not desirable in a situation when the same host is meant to
  provide network services.

  This wouldn't be such a problem if there was an easy way for the user
  to change this, but this is not the case since GNOME 3 and its big
  migration to dconf. There isn't any dedicated tool to adjust GDM
  defaults available yet and 'gksu -u gdm gnome-control-center' won't
  work either because it tries to access display :0.

  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gdm 3.0.4-0ubuntu11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i586
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Sep 27 06:25:14 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=fi:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: gdm
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2009-02-07 (961 days ago)

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