On 10/23/2014 09:19 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi, > > Am 24.10.2014 um 02:40 schrieb ~Stack~: >> I think I last booted/updated this laptop last weekend. I booted it up >> tonight to mess around on it and the first thing, as always, was to run >> updates. A bunch of systemd stuff updated. Now the laptop is dang near >> unusable. > > Could you please check, from which version you updated, so we know which > version did not exhibit this behaviour and which version does. > See /var/log/dpkg. It looks like I went from 204-14 to 215-5+b1 if I am reading this correctly. > Which version do you currently run? 215-5+b1 > >> It boots and it will sit at the log in screen for quite some time like >> everything is good and happy. If I log in either via GUI (LXDE) or via >> command line, the laptop goes to sleep anywhere between 2 and 15 seconds >> later. I have to hit the power button (no other button on the laptop is >> responsive) and it will wake up again but promptly go back to sleep 2-15 >> seconds later. And repeat. >> >> It took me over a minute simply trying to log in via the CLI just run a >> 'tail -f /var/log/syslog' because for whatever reason it really just >> wants to go to sleep. The only thing that I really see is a line that reads: >> <time> <hostname> systemd-sleep: suspending session >> >> Nothing before it of any consequence, and after is just logs about the >> system going into sleep mode. >> >> So I have been digging around trying to figure out what is going on and >> I can't seem to stop it. > > Once you're logged in, run "systemd-inhibit --what=sleep /bin/sleep > 3600" [1]. This should block any suspend requests for one hour. Thanks. I made the temp modifications from Don Armstrong's suggestion which seems to have given me relief. > > Or for a permanent change, you can edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf and set > "HandleSuspendKey" and "HandleLidSwitch" to ignore. Yup. That's the suggestion. :-) > > Could you describe your hardware in more detail. What type of computer, > which graphics card and driver, monitor setup etc. Sure, here is the laptop: http://linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2100dc.html It has run a flavor of Linux for...geez...like 8 years...and I have never had an issue with any Linux distro running on it (the reason why I bought it :-). > > For some reason, you seem to be getting acpi events which trigger the > suspend request in logind. This might be a buggy ACPI implementation > like in [1]. > > Michael > > > [1] > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_Aspire_One#Suspend_on_lid.2C_shutdown_on_power_button > > > [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-inhibit.html > Thanks!
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