GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 607114
Display doesn't sleep in Karmic
Last modified: 2012-03-23 16:01:03 UTC
Originally reported in Launchpad at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/491975 "I recently upgraded to Karmic from Jaunty - Dell Inspiron 6400. The problem I face now is that the Gnome power management's sleep timeouts are behaving inconsistently. I've set the display to sleep for 1 minute of inactivity. But from what I've observed, it never goes to sleep after boot up. But if I later open up power manager settings, re-select the 1 minute setting, and then click the "Make default" button, display _sometimes_ goes to sleep. I've noticed that /apps/gnome-power-manager/timeout/sleep_display_ac and /apps/gnome-power-manager/timeout/sleep_display_battery keys are set to 60 in gconf-editor. But it's rarely honored. FWIW, I've had problems with power manager and display even in Jaunty. I had raised this bug ( I've tried by disabling the screensaver, but that didn't help either. Please look into same; and let me know if I can give you logs/traces." The following logs are available at the above Launchpad bug: Dependencies.txt DevkitPower.txt GConfNonDefault.txt ProcMaps.txt ProcStatus.txt XsessionErrors.txt gnome-power-bugreport.txt
64 bit karmic clean install and the only way I can get gnome-power-manager to work after rebooting is to ether: 1) killall gnome-power-manager, followed by restarting it, or,,,, 2) Log off and back on After every reboot, g-p-m will not work unless I do one of the 2 things I listed.