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Synaptic needs to inhibit GPM from sleeping while downloading/installing packages

Bug #158321 reported by Jackflap
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
synaptic
Confirmed
Undecided
Gordon Smith
synaptic (Debian)
New
Unknown
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

I'm running a default Ubuntu 7.10 (Gnome) installation.

I configure the power management settings to put the computer to sleep after a certain period of inactivity. Once that period of time expires Gnome Power Management will put the computer to sleep even if Synaptic Package Manager is in the middle of downloading or installing packages.

According to the Gnome docs, the player should call a dbus method when downloading/installation/reloading starts so that the computer doesn't sleep due to inactivity. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomePowerManagerInactiveSleep for more info.

Tags: udd-find
Jackflap (deriziotis)
Changed in synaptic:
status: New → Confirmed
status: New → Confirmed
Jackflap (deriziotis)
Changed in synaptic:
assignee: nobody → synaptic
Jackflap (deriziotis)
Changed in synaptic:
assignee: nobody → mvo
Revision history for this message
Jackflap (deriziotis) wrote :

Can I get no one to write a patch for this? I've submitted this bug to the debian bugtracker and to the synaptic mailing list.

Radio silence.

Is synaptic no longer under active development? Where the hell are its developers hiding?

It's bugs like this and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334806 which make power mgt on linux look right stupid.

Is no one interested in fixing this? It's a spec, is there something up with specs? Like the clipboard spec which no one adheres to? Why does everyone hate specs??

Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thanks for your report. We need to send a Inhibit/Unhinhibit signal before/after the upgrade. I'm setting the status of this report as "Triaged/medium"

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
assignee: Michael Vogt (mvo) → nobody
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
tags: added: udd-find
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in synaptic (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Revision history for this message
David Rahim Whitehurst (2482711-gmail) wrote :

The most pressing part of this sleep is that there is a ten minute inactivity default set which runs even during live-boot and install process.

A fresh install comes to a halt if the system goes to sleep.

Also, the live session user has no password, so cannot log in after a lock. (though this is another matter entirely)

Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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