Disabling suspend and hibernate via polkit in 14.04 does not work.

[Daniel Drucker]

How to disable suspend and hibernate via polkit in Ubuntu 14.04 ?

The pkla file /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d/disable-suspend.pkla doesn't work :
Below its contents :

[Disable suspend by default]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.suspend
ResultActive=no

[Disable hibernate by default]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate
ResultActive=no

Thanks !

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[William Van Hevelingen (blkperl)]

They changed the suspend and hibernate rules to be under login1.

Try the following:

# cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d/disable-suspend.pkla
[Disable suspend by default]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.suspend
ResultActive=no

[Disable suspend for all sessions]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.suspend-multiple-sessions
ResultActive=no

[Daniel Drucker (dmd-c)]

That works, blkperl.

[v-max (v-max)]

For me this didn't work. However, I'm using xubuntu so maybe here is the problem.

When I boot xbuntu with the laptop display closed suspend is not activated so this behaivor is as expected.
When I open the display, do something and close it again the laptop is going into suspend mode what is not what I want.

I tried the solution with polkit and login1 without success. Renaming the /usr/lib/pm-utils/bin/pm-action to .bak (so pm should be disabled completly) didn't work too.
Of course I first tried the default method to disable suspend with the ubuntu preferences...

Anyone has an idea?