rogue suspend is driving me nuts

Andras Simon szajmi at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 08:58:04 UTC 2009


On 9/4/09, brian <fedora at logi.ca> wrote:
> On 08/31/2009 07:48 PM, brian wrote:
>> On 08/31/2009 06:05 PM, Tony Nelson wrote:
>>>
>>> If you can't solve the problem, and you don't need fancy Power
>>> Management services, you can `yum remove gnome-power-manager`. I did
>>> that and also removed gnome-screensaver, replacing both with
>>> xscreensaver. I don't use suspend or hibernate, but I do want the
>>> display to sleep, and, as a bonus, I get better looking screensavers.
>>> I did lose the ability to switch users without first unlocking the
>>> screen.
>>>
>>
>> OK, I've done that. I should know by tomorrow if it worked, as this box
>> has been shutting down several times a day.
>
> After a couple of days, it looks like this did the trick. Thanks.

If removing gnome-power-manager did the trick, then maybe it's just
the it was set to initiate suspend when the machine was idle for some
time.

Andras




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