Comment 29 for bug 423694

Chris, any progress or further upstream discussions on finding what causes this?

I'm still experiencing issues with my netbook randomly not being able to go idle (and thus, no screen dimming, dpms off, or auto suspend...). I couldn't pinpoint the cause, it usually works the first few times after a fresh login. AFAIK the totem, hamster and eog bugs that prevented idling have been patched.

On rare occasions I see the weird little icon in the notification area, but it immediately disappears, I've never been able to mouse over it to see what it said.

It seems to happen only on my netbook, which obviously has a lid and suspends/resumes quite often. AFAICT my desktop doesn't "forget" to idle.

I wish I could be more of help and get this damn idling+power saving+inhibition crap working "just like it used to" in time for the next ubuntu LTS release, which will be installed on many computers I maintain... but I just don't know how to troubleshoot this clusterbug anymore, I'm lost.

If there's some kind of automated test suite I can run, or a detailed step by step investigation guide for this, I'd be interested.