System goes to hibernate or suspend even when set to "Don't suspend"

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Confirming here. I noticed my desktop system had done this last night. I booted it up and was away for a couple of hours to find it had hibernated again.

I checked my settings and they were set to "Don't Suspend". The "When power is critically low " dropdown setting was showing a blank value, as if neither Hibernate nor Shutdown were selected.

I changed the values in both boxes, then moved them back to "Don't suspend" and "Hibernate", to see if this is just a misreading of legacy settings by some update of the program. I'll let this system sit for a couple of hours now to see if it worked.

Yes, I ran into this too. Stéphane Graber suggested:

  gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type 'nothing'
  gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-type 'nothing'

But the UI is supposed to do this and apparently doesn't. This is going to be very confusing for our users; we need to sort it out for 11.10 if at all possible.

Noticed this a few days ago. I've tried a few different combinations of settings and couldn't get it to stay on. One thing I noticed was that when I set the screensaver to "Never" the screen dimming takes affect about 1-2 seconds after you stop doing anything. I would not be so annoyed by this, but hibernate/suspend kills the network connection which makes a vpn or any other long-running download stop. Very frustrating.

Seems like as we're getting closer to release the stability is going down, but maybe that's just me.

Since I changed my settings and changed them back as described in post #3, I have not had the problem recur. So - to me it looks like a change to the app is causing it to misread legacy settings.

the issue is known an being tracked on bug #860485, it started with the default being wrong but seems there is other issues leading to the setting not working as it should

could those who have the issue set "org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout" to 0 manually using "gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 0" and see if you still get the bug? Setting the wrong value seems to work for some

Before setting it, can you please let us know what are the values for "sleep-inactive-ac-timeout", "sleep-inactive-ac", "sleep-inactive-battery-timeout" and "sleep-inactive-battery"?

You can get the values fromt he command line with:

gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power $key

On 10/03/2011 10:57 AM, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> Before setting it, can you please let us know what are the values for
> "sleep-inactive-ac-timeout", "sleep-inactive-ac", "sleep-inactive-
> battery-timeout" and "sleep-inactive-battery"?
>
> You can get the values fromt he command line with:
>
> gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power $key
>
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Oneiric)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya)
>

I followed Colins suggestion to force sleep-inactive-{ac, battery}-type
to 'nothing' with gsettings. Before they had been set to hibernate, even
so I had played with several different values in the power settings before.

gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power active true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-hibernate 'hibernate'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-power 'interactive'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-sleep 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-suspend 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power critical-battery-action 'shutdown'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-brightness 30
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-ac false

org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-time 10
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action 'nothing'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-battery-action 'nothing'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power notify-perhaps-recall true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-action 2
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-critical 3
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-low 10
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power priority 1
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-display-ac 600
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-display-battery 600
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 1800
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type 'nothing'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-timeout 0
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-type
'nothing'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-action 120
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-critical 300
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-low 1200
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power use-time-for-policy true

$ gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power active true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-hibernate 'hibernate'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-power 'interactive'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-sleep 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-suspend 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power critical-battery-action 'hibernate'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-brightness 30
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-ac false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-time 10
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-battery-action 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power notify-perhaps-recall true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-action 2
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-critical 3
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-low 10
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power priority 1
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-display-ac 3600
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-display-battery 3600
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 1800
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-timeout 1800
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-type 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-action 120
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-critical 300
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-low 1200
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power use-time-for-policy true

$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 0

$ gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power active true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-hibernate 'hibernate'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-power 'interactive'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-sleep 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-suspend 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power critical-battery-action 'hibernate'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-brightness 30
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-ac false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-time 10
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-battery-action 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power notify-perhaps-recall true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-action 2
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-critical 3
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-low 10
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power priority 1
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sl...

Seems this fixes the issue.

This is confirmed fixed with the latest uploads of gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-control-center, so please make sure to upgrade those. If it happens again after all upgraded packages are installed, please reopen

Hi,

Please see my comments in Bug 860485.

I have version 3.2.2-0ubuntu2.1 of gnome-settings-daemon. I'm still having this issue. My computer suspends and I am unable to revive it. I have to do a hard reboot.

I just upgraded from Lucid to Precise and now my desktop suspends when idle, it never did before. power applet looks right, switching to suspend and back doens't affect it.

My screen saver is also completely gone, but that's another issue.

I'll try the other suggestions here and update, but I wanted to put this note in the the bug still exists at least for upgrades.

it did not suspend overnight.

there do seem to be several option resetting to defaults or failing to migrate, not just related to power management. maybe the issues is actually in gconf's upgrade processing?