Computer suspends immediately after switching user

[Jan W]

I have a number of users defined on the computer, let's call two of them Dad and Child. In KDE I can have multiple parallel sessions, each for a user. When user Child has been logged in for a while and I switch from user Child to user Dad, the computer immediately suspends. I would expect the computer to continue without suspending, because I have just been active on the computer.

Some guesswork on my part: I think it has to do with the power saving settings. For user Dad, I have set the computer to suspend after 30 minutes. For user Child, there is no such setting. Thus, when user Child has been working for more than 30 minutes and I switch to user Dad, the power saving logic is enabled, sees that user Dad has been inactive for more than 30 minutes and suspends the computer.

I'm using Kubuntu 16.10, with yakkety-updates enabled

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 1674911

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[Jan W (ubuntu-kiekerjan)]

apport-collect 1674911 for "affecting" linux results in an Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 530, in <module>
    sys.exit(UserInterface.run_argv())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 663, in run_argv
    return self.run_update_report()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 579, in run_update_report
    response = self.ui_present_report_details(allowed_to_report)
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 367, in ui_present_report_details
    desktop_info)
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 184, in __init__
    self.ui.ui_update_view(self)
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 358, in ui_update_view
    QTreeWidgetItem(keyitem, [str(line)])
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)

apport-collect 1674911 for "affecting" kubuntu-meta results in nothing:

[Jan W (ubuntu-kiekerjan)]

$ apport-collect 1674911
N: Unable to locate package kubuntu-meta

[dino99 (9d9)]

This is an unsupported release now. Please think to install the next LTS 'Bionic 18.04'

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-next/daily-live/current/
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-18-04-minimal-install-option