Computer will suspend while copying file across network

[fbc]

Steps to reproduce.
1.Set your laptop to sleep after 5 minutes of inactivity.
2. Start to copy a large file across your network that takes longer than 5 minutes to complete.
3. Your laptop will go into sleep regardless of what files your copying.
4. Same thing goes if your using a bittorrent client, your computer will sleep anyways.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still and issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I've recreated this on Hardy Heron using gnome-power-manager version 2.21.92-0ubuntu2. I tested by using scp to copy a large file from one system to another and my laptop suspended during the file transfer.

I'm assigning this to gnome-power-manager as I believe it is measuring inactivity somehow and then suspends the laptop.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

I don't think that this should be a GPM bug. Basically GPM is only asking X for whether the computer is idle. There's simply no one else to ask. I think this is an architecture issue that needs to be solved at a different level than GPM.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

surely it just needs nautilus (or better yet gvfs) to inhibit suspending while such operations are in progress, in the same way that totem/whatever do while media is being played?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.