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Bug#935744: RFC Debian Buster Release notes documentation : Power-saving regulations



Package: release-notes

Hi Rémi,

Thanks for your report.

On 30-07-2019 15:10, Rémi Rouaud wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for my bad english, and sorry I'm not sysadmin.
> 
> I migrated from Debian 9 to 10 applying excellent documentation :
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.fr.html
> 
> All worked well.
> 
> The machine is a sftp server. And to be user-friendly Gnome graphic
> environement runs on this server.
> 
> And my server entered in deep suspend power save mode few minutes later...
> 
> According to this bug report :
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=893964#22
> "It's 20 minutes, and is a result of the defaults in
> gnome-settings-daemon 3.28 changing to comply with European and American
> power-saving
> regulations."
> 
> So If we migrate a debian server with gnome to Buster. The login screen
> will suspend the server 20 minutes later the migration.
> What a joke !
> 
> The solution consists in editing /etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults to
> come back to 'blank' screen.
> 
> After the sysadmin can enforce refering to :
> https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/systemd/systemd-sleep.conf.5.en.html
> https://wiki.debian.org/Suspend
> 
> I suggest the release notes documentation should point this small but
> very critical change.
> 
> Best regards,
> Rémi Rouaud
> 

Next time, it's better to file a bug report (as I have done now), as
unfortunately, e-mail have a tendency to sometimes get lost.

Does anybody have a proposal for some text?

Paul

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