power manager causing catastrophic powerfail
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xfce4-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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When my laptop attempts to suspend itself to avoid powerfail, instead of successfully suspending, I get a popup from xfce4-power-
How do I prevent applications from preventing suspend when battery is low?
$ dbus-send --print-reply --dest=
reveals:
freedesktop/
but sometimes there are others too.
Needless to say this is disastrous to my laptop's state of charge and battery health and results in recoverable filesystem corruption when these apps idiotically force the system to powerfail by prematurely depleting the battery and then preventing the life-saving suspend that would have prevented them losing state.
Ideally some of these applications should still be able to prevent suspend when the system is not low on battery, but I'd like be given an opportunity to permit that behaviour. It should never have been made a default setting that applications can overcome power management settings which are in place to protect the hardware and filesystem consistency!
This error ironically only occurs when running on battery. The system suspends fine 100% of the time when it is plugged in.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xfce4-power-manager 1.6.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Jun 8 12:16:51 2018
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-08 (31 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
LocalLibraries: /usr/local/
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA
PATH=(custom, user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xfce4-power-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
I suggest forwarding this issue to the Xfce bug tracker.
https:/ /bugzilla. xfce.org/