Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 3 octobre 2011 17:09, Przemek Klosowski a écrit : The bottom line is that the power supply is probably on the fritz and likely to fail altogether. Decent power supplies aren't that expensive, I recently got a nice, quiet one for around $30-40. Thanks, but it's perfectly fine under

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-04 Thread Richard Hughes
On 3 October 2011 08:57, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: That's what it was supposed to be, but due to an oversight on my part the wrong keys were being set. I've fixed this upstream in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660395 -- which will of course be included in 3.2.1

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-03 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 10/02/2011 10:13 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 02:02, Hans de Goedehdego...@redhat.com wrote: Imagine I'm running a screen session with my irc client in there on my Fedora box, There has perhaps never been a better sentence written demonstrating why software

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-03 Thread Richard Hughes
On 1 October 2011 12:02, Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: I would like to suggest to change the default power policy to never suspend while on AC power. That's what it was supposed to be, but due to an oversight on my part the wrong keys were being set. I've fixed this upstream in

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-03 Thread Frederic Muller
On 10/03/2011 03:48 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: This is todays hardware and with every generation the gap is getting smaller between dyn pm savings and suspend savings. The annual life cycle energy use for a computer (3-year lifespan) is 2600 MJ [...]. The energy footprint of a computer is thus

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Hi, To provide another data point, here my desktop : 1. runs network services (because webmail just works locally and remotely, unlike evo which has been a crasher for as long as I can remember) 2. uses dyndns (evil I know) and with the systemd/networkmanager changes ddclient does not seem to

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
As you can see, suspending is the right thing to do. 1) Not for servers 2) This is todays hardware and with every generation the gap is getting smaller between dyn pm savings and suspend savings. It looks like it also might not be for systems that have encrypted swap. I think I started

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Jason D. Clinton m...@jasonclinton.com wrote: 2) The machine has a server function. In this case working wake on lan and    stay active on lan are a must have and until we have those it should not    auto suspend. WOL for a network server is madness. It

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-03 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 10/03/2011 05:37 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: 3. uses a high efficiency low-noise PSU, which does not like power ups at all (in fact restarting the computer now takes a dozen tries, with minutes waiting for caps to drain ; yes I could change the hardware but it works fine under load and a

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-02 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 10/01/2011 05:07 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Hans de Goedehdego...@redhat.com wrote: The subject more or less says it all. When I startup my desktop machine (which thus is always on AC), and leave it at the gdm screen it will suspend after being left

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-02 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 02:02, Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: Imagine I'm running a screen session with my irc client in there on my Fedora box, There has perhaps never been a better sentence written demonstrating why software engineers are not the target audience of any software

F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-01 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi All, The subject more or less says it all. When I startup my desktop machine (which thus is always on AC), and leave it at the gdm screen it will suspend after being left alone for 30 minutes. This is not good, since I only leave it powered on when I intend to access it remotely. I would

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-01 Thread drago01
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: And I can honestly say I've never seen a desktop machine where suspend worked with Linux, so suspending desktop machines by default seems like a bad idea. I don't get where this is coming from, suspend has pretty much

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: The subject more or less says it all. When I startup my desktop machine (which thus is always on AC), and leave it at the gdm screen it will suspend after being left alone for 30 minutes. This is not good, since I only

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-01 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:33:13 +0200, drago01 wrote: but the suspend does not work on desktop argument is simply not true Not replying to metoo/flames but neither suspend nor hibernate worked reliably for me through years on notebook (T60). Depending on BIOS and kernel versions the former or

Re: F-16 suspends my *desktop* after 30 minutes at the gdm , making it impossible to ssh in

2011-10-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
Hans de Goede wrote: The subject more or less says it all. When I startup my desktop machine (which thus is always on AC), and leave it at the gdm screen it will suspend after being left alone for 30 minutes. This is not good, since I only leave it powered on when I intend to access it