Your message dated Thu, 6 Nov 2025 18:16:44 -0500 with message-id <caaajcmacrwvjkig+pho7tq88hwgrsvkkf0mj3eickup_1h1...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line closing old gdm3 bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #896083, regarding gdm3: Suspends machine after 20 minutes to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: gdm3 Version: 3.28.0-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, gdm3's default dconf energy settings suspend the machine after 20 minutes. This is independent of the power settings made by an unprivileged user within a Gnome login session. While this could be forgiven on a locally accessible desktop machine, it also suspends remote/headless machines (e.g. in a data center). Activity on a SSH terminal or VNC connection does not prevent this issue. Having no easy way to re-wake remote machines, this may create highly inconvenient situations for administrators. In addition, unexpected suspension may also have disastrous consequences, depending on the use of the machine. To reproduce, install task-gnome-desktop and wait for 20 minutes on a machine which supports power management. The offending settings can be printed to the console. As superuser: su -s /bin/bash Debian-gdm unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR dbus-launch gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep- inactive-ac-type dbus-launch gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep- inactive-ac-timeout This prints 'suspend' and '1200', respectively. For quicker reproduction of the problem, reduce the timeout to 2 minutes: dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep- inactive-ac-timeout 120 Then reboot and wait 2 minutes. To turn off suspension, set: dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep- inactive-ac-type nothing Regards, Michael Franzl -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gdm3 depends on: ii accountsservice 0.6.45-1 ii adduser 3.117 ii dconf-cli 0.28.0-2 ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.28.0-2 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.66 ii gir1.2-gdm-1.0 3.28.0-1 ii gnome-session [x-session-manager] 3.28.0-2 ii gnome-session-bin 3.28.0-2 ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.28.0-1 ii gnome-shell 3.28.0-1+b1 ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.28.0-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.28.0-1 ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.45-1 ii libaudit1 1:2.8.2-1 ii libc6 2.27-3 ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-6 ii libcanberra0 0.30-6 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.11-2 ii libgdm1 3.28.0-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.56.1-2 ii libglib2.0-bin 2.56.1-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.29-3 ii libkeyutils1 1.5.9-9.2 ii libpam-modules 1.1.8-3.7 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.7 ii libpam-systemd 238-4 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.7 ii librsvg2-common 2.40.20-2 ii libselinux1 2.7-2+b2 ii libsystemd0 238-4 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-27 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.5-1 ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1+b2 ii libxcb1 1.13-1 ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.2-3 ii lsb-base 9.20170808 ii mutter [x-window-manager] 3.28.0-2 ii policykit-1 0.105-20 ii ucf 3.0038 ii x11-common 1:7.7+19 ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+8 Versions of packages gdm3 recommends: ii at-spi2-core 2.28.0-1 ii desktop-base 9.0.5 ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7+3+b1 ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.19.6-1 ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+19 ii zenity 3.28.1-1 Versions of packages gdm3 suggests: pn gnome-orca <none> pn libpam-fprintd <none> ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.28.0.2-1 -- debconf information: gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3 * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
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--- Begin Message ---There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
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