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[Craig Harding <188639@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Any status on this bug?

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Title:
  laptop will not sleep after idle time

Status in Gnome Powermanager:
  Invalid
Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When my laptop is on mains it sleeps in accordance with gnome-power-
  manager's settings. That is, if I've set it to sleep after 20 minutes
  of inactivity, it does precisely that. However, while on battery power
  this does not happen. The screen is blanked, but the computer never
  goes into suspend. The weird thing is that the screensaver never kicks
  in (instead the screen goes blank whether gpm is running or not), so
  this might actually be a problem with gnome-screensaver. I'm not sure.

  For testing purposes I set gnome-screensaver to activate the
  screensaver after 1 minute of inactivity, and gpm to suspend the
  computer after 2 minutes of inactivity. I will attach the output of

  LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" gnome-power-manager --no-daemon --debug power
  --verbose & sleep 4m && killall gnome-power-manager && gnome-
  screensaver-command -p

  Please do tell me if and how I can provide additional information.
  This bug is really annoying as it has resulted in me returning to my
  laptop several times only to find it completely drained on battery.

  I'm currently on an up-to-date hardy install.

  WORKAROUND: 
  Looking through gconf, I saw that /apps/gnome-power-manager/actions/sleep_type_battery is set to 'nothing' instead of 'suspend'. Setting it to suspend caused the computer to sleep after 2 minutes idle.

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