Your message dated Sun, 9 Nov 2025 19:36:20 -0500 with message-id <CAAajCMZY=v58f7v_h16dzc4tpdidkcqfy3qnxwhnbk4xxru...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line closing ancient gnome-power-manager bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #669255, regarding hdparm: Harddisk continuously spins up and down whilst on battery power to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: hdparm Version: 9.39-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, During roughly the last couple of weeks my laptop disk has stared to continuously spin up and down excessively, resulting in hiccups in GNOME and applications. I'm suspecting that this might be due to hdparm introducing new settings for apm_battery, since if I set that to 128 instead of the default 127 the behaviours goes away (obviously). Was there a change in this setting recently? And if so, is there any way to fix this? Worth noting is that setting -S 30 when -B 127 is set does not seem to help the spinning down at all, however, if -B is 128 and -S is set to 1, it can instead re-create the behaviour... How are these variables supposed to interact? -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages hdparm depends on: ii libc6 2.13-27 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian0 Versions of packages hdparm recommends: ii powermgmt-base 1.31 Versions of packages hdparm suggests: ii apmd 3.2.2-14 -- Configuration Files: /etc/hdparm.conf changed: quiet /dev/sda { apm_battery = 128 } /etc/udev/hdparm.rules [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/udev/hdparm.rules' -- no debconf information
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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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