Synaptic needs to inhibit GPM from sleeping while downloading/installing packages

[Jackflap]

I'm running a default Ubuntu 7.10 (Gnome) installation.

I configure the power management settings to put the computer to sleep after a certain period of inactivity. Once that period of time expires Gnome Power Management will put the computer to sleep even if Synaptic Package Manager is in the middle of downloading or installing packages.

According to the Gnome docs, the player should call a dbus method when downloading/installation/reloading starts so that the computer doesn't sleep due to inactivity. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomePowerManagerInactiveSleep for more info.

[Jackflap (deriziotis)]

Can I get no one to write a patch for this? I've submitted this bug to the debian bugtracker and to the synaptic mailing list.

Radio silence.

Is synaptic no longer under active development? Where the hell are its developers hiding?

It's bugs like this and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334806 which make power mgt on linux look right stupid.

Is no one interested in fixing this? It's a spec, is there something up with specs? Like the clipboard spec which no one adheres to? Why does everyone hate specs??

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. We need to send a Inhibit/Unhinhibit signal before/after the upgrade. I'm setting the status of this report as "Triaged/medium"

[David Rahim Whitehurst (2482711-gmail)]

The most pressing part of this sleep is that there is a ten minute inactivity default set which runs even during live-boot and install process.

A fresh install comes to a halt if the system goes to sleep.

Also, the live session user has no password, so cannot log in after a lock. (though this is another matter entirely)