Power "When the lid is closed" setting does nothing

[Haw Loeung]

Hi,

Probably the opposite of LP: #1574120, after upgrading from Xenial to Yakkety (alpha 2), it seems my laptop automatically goes into suspend when the lid is closed even though I have "When the lid is closed" setting set to "Do nothing".

I'm not sure what's changed, has the HandleLidSwitch default in logind changed? Also, any chance of fixing the "Power" setting so it correctly handles updating logind?

I had to update /etc/systemd/logind.conf and add "HandleLidSwitch=ignore".

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Unity-control-center didn't change so it's not likely due to it. Could you copy the output of "systemd-inhibit" to the bug?

[Haw Loeung (hloeung)]

     Who: NetworkManager (UID 0/root, PID 18098/NetworkManager)
    What: sleep
     Why: NetworkManager needs to turn off networks
    Mode: delay

     Who: hloeung (UID 3134/hloeung, PID 2995/unity-settings-)
    What: handle-power-key:handle-suspend-key:handle-hibernate-key
     Why: GNOME handling keypresses
    Mode: block

     Who: hloeung (UID 3134/hloeung, PID 2995/unity-settings-)
    What: sleep
     Why: GNOME needs to lock the screen
    Mode: delay

     Who: hloeung (UID 3134/hloeung, PID 2995/unity-settings-)
    What: handle-lid-switch
     Why: Multiple displays attached
    Mode: block

     Who: Unity (UID 3134/hloeung, PID 3062/compiz)
    What: sleep
     Why: Unity needs to lock the screen
    Mode: delay

5 inhibitors listed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the desktop side didn't change and there is an inhibitor listed, likely to be a systemd issue

[Dan Dart (dandart)]

This powerdevil bug explains a workaround for until Ubuntu updates systemd.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366402

[Dan Dart (dandart)]

I think it is now just a matter of releasing the update and/or the config change:

LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=no

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

please reopen if this is still an issue