High CPU usage when idle & lid closed

[rumburak]

1) Release: Ubuntu 8.04 - Hardy Heron (up to date 03-Aug-2008)

2) Package unknown

When the user:

1. Has a beautiful laptop (i.e. Dell XPS M1330)
2. Closes lid
3. Visits to some friends to watch a 1080p shitty movie
4. Has a few beers
5. Hosts do not hold an ashtray
6. User confuses empty beer can ad-hoc ashtray with current can
7. Tries not to offend hosts by thrashing the poisoned can
8. Comes home pissed a few hours later
9. Opens lid
10. Looks at computer

3) Should occur:
Nice gnome desktop, cold computer

4) Occurs:
50% CPU on a Core2 Duo silently sneaks away from the System Monitor, hot computer

[rumburak (rumburake)]

Short open/close cycles do not hog the CPU.

[rumburak (rumburake)]

Medium open/close (having a smoke) cycle does not hog the CPU.

[Gabriel Ruiz (anakron)]

Turn off it if its not necessary to be up. Handle it with care.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please attach the resulting log file of: gnome-power-bugreport.sh &> gpm.log to the report? You might also want to take a look to the Debugging instructions located at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager for submit any other logs related to your problem.Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.