Gnome-Power-Manager ignores drive spin down settings in /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf

Bug #259868 reported by HillerD
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
acpi-support
Invalid
Undecided
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gnome-power
Invalid
Medium
gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Laptop mode activated with "ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=true" in
/etc/default/acpi-support
Laptop mode is running when I unplug the power cord (reduced CPU frequency) but
also the HD is spun down (which is deactivated in files
/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf and /etc/default/acpi-support).

Changed in gnome-power:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gnome-power:
status: New → Invalid
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HillerD (hillerd-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

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Comment #3 from Richard Hughes (gnome-power-manager developer, points: 18)
2008-08-21 08:29 UTC [reply]

Please file in ubuntu bugtracker -- in upstream g-p-m does not modify the hard
drive spin down timeout in any way. thanks.
<===
So it's a bug in Ubuntu's GPM.
Attachments of acpi-support and laptop-mode.conf are available in the upstream bug report.
PS: It is still working in Feisty Fawn, so what changed to Hardy? (I skipped Gibbon)

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HillerD (hillerd-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I found this also discussed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/250938.
Maybe It's fixed in 0.110, but it's not released for Hardy, just for Intrepid (see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support).

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HillerD (hillerd-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I just made the changes from 0.109 to 0.110 manually, this fixes the issue.
My proposal: release for Hardy, issue for me is solved.

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HillerD (hillerd-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I have to correct myself.
The previously mentioned approach disactivates the features entirely (also LAPTOP_MODE start|stop is not called).
I changed it to skip just the HDPARM calls.

But this cannot have been the source of my issue, because I saw, that the file power.sh is nearly identical in Feisty and Hardy, so the root cause of the new behavior is somewhere else!
The modification of the script can only be regarded as work-around for a still mysterious issue.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

according to upstream this is a ubuntu bug: "in upstream g-p-m does not modify the hard
drive spin down timeout in any way. thanks."

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
assignee: nobody → ted-gould
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in acpi-support:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in gnome-power:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ted Gould (ted) → nobody
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