Keyboard backlight isn't properly restored after idle on systems with hardwired configuration

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Upower patch has been applied upstaream. Debdiff for the ubuntu package updated.

Uplaoded upower fix to yakkety and to xenial-proposed.

This bug was fixed in the package upower - 0.99.4-2git1

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upower (0.99.4-2git1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * UpKbdBacklight: Don't cache the brightness level, always read
   it from sysfs. (LP: #1583861)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 24 May 2016 14:53:01 +0200

Hello Marco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted upower into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upower/0.99.4-2ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Unfortunately this fails because of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96215

Adjusted patch in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upower/0.99.4-2ubuntu0.2, please re-test with this version.

I am unsubscribing sponsors as there doesn't appear to be anything left to sponsor here.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Sorry, is this bug already fixed? Because i have the last version of upower (0.99.4-2ubuntu0.2) and I still have this problem. Thanks

The upower-side of the isuse has been fixed, however unless unity-settings-daemon doesn't land it won't be fixed in yakkety and then in xenial (once SRU'ed)

This bug was fixed in the package unity-settings-daemon - 15.04.1+16.10.20160613-0ubuntu1

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unity-settings-daemon (15.04.1+16.10.20160613-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * PowerManager: connect to keyboard BrightnessChanged signal to update
    the cached current value properly (LP: #1510344)
  * GsdPowerManager: don't cache kbd backlight current value (LP:
    #1583861)
  * common: backport g-s-d commits for having single shared dbus proxies
  * ScreensaverProxy: redirect supported calls to gnome screensaver APIs
    (LP: #1415265, #1584161)

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * Correctly check value of XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP.
  * Remove code for disabling plugin under GNOME Shell - they don't use
    u-s-d.
  * Drop print notifications - not used under Unity.

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * power: '0' keyboard backlight is a valid value (LP: #1510344)
  * Don't hit an xerror when a device is removed while being configured
    (LP: #1503758)
  * wacom: don't segfault when a device is removed while being
    configured. (LP: #1439427)
  * power: fix crasher when the plugin is unloaded (LP: #1567116)
  * power: Add sound notification on power plug/unplug

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@3v1n0.net> Mon, 13 Jun 2016 11:31:26 +0000

Hello Marco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity-settings-daemon into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-settings-daemon/15.04.1+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Thanks, fixed it for me.

This bug was fixed in the package unity-settings-daemon - 15.04.1+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1

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unity-settings-daemon (15.04.1+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * Correctly check value of XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP.

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * PowerManager: connect to keyboard BrightnessChanged signal to update
    the cached current value properly (LP: #1510344)
  * GsdPowerManager: don't cache kbd backlight current value (LP:
    #1583861)
  * common: backport g-s-d commits for having single shared dbus proxies
  * ScreensaverProxy: redirect supported calls to gnome screensaver APIs
    (LP: #1415265, LP: #1584161)

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * Don't hit an xerror when a device is removed while being configured
    (LP: #1503758)
  * wacom: don't segfault when a device is removed while being
    configured. (LP: #1439427)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * GsdPowerManager: use proper return value for upower_kbd_toggle
    wherever we use it (LP: #1592816)

  [ Kai-Heng Feng ]
  * SettingsManager: Queue up signals before getting D-Bus connection.
    (LP: #1571640)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@3v1n0.net> Fri, 01 Jul 2016 13:28:54 +0000

The verification of the Stable Release Update for unity-settings-daemon has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

Hi all,
I've got Dell Latitude E7470:

#uname -a
Linux E7470 4.4.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 13 00:07:12 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

#dpkg -s upower | grep -i 'status\|version'
Status: install ok installed
Version: 0.99.4-2ubuntu0.3

#dpkg -s unity-settings-daemon | grep -i 'status\|version'
Status: install ok installed
Version: 15.04.1+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1

My Keyboard lights all time (doesn't time-out). I can disable it by FN+F10, but it will light again after boot/resume/unlock-weak-up. When I boot to BIOS all is OK. It time-outs after 10 seconds.

Should I perform any additional steps (i.e. packages reconfiguration) ?

Regards
Grzesiek

The upower Xenial task is Fix Committed, but there is no package in xenial-proposed!
Is the task closed or not?