Michael I am reviewing bugs and i came across this and i got some information that will help to this bug triaged
can run in the terminal apport-collect 371195 to attach the relevant log files You can look at the following wikipage for reference https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager Lasty you can run the following command in a terminal to see if it is dpms related xset dpms force off and see if it the screen goes off as expected Looking forward to hearing from you Cheers ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371195 Title: Backlight stays lit -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs