Screen blanked while typing

Bug #517632 reported by Vish
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

After today's update of gnome-power-manager (2.29.1-0ubuntu2) to 2.29.1-0ubuntu4 , I had screen blanking problems twice. within 5hrs.

This is a regression of Bug #397839 , which was fixed in Karmic

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 417990aadff2335cd485c57bb06c8968
CheckboxSystem: 5484a8dd99f006173bd2ac53fa4837c2
Date: Fri Feb 5 20:57:55 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20091209)
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.29.1-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.16-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic i686

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Vish (vish) wrote :
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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. Please run "killall gnome-power-manager && gnome-power-manager --verbose 2>&1 | tee gpm-debug.log", and attach the resulting file to this bug report after recreating the issue.

Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
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Vish (vish) wrote :

hmm , sorry about that , totally forgot to debug it immediately. :(
[been a while since gpm gave me problems ;) ]

Weird thing is , since i reported the bug , it has been quite. I'll debug it when i get the blanking again.

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Vish (vish) wrote :

Marking my bug as a dup of Bug #423694 , since I'm not noticing the issue , and it seems Chris has committed a fix upstream for Bug #423694

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