rogue suspend is driving me nuts

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-08-31 13:44:11, brian wrote:
> 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i586
> 
> For the past couple of weeks, my desktop machine has been shutting
> down on its own. I thought it might be a hardware problem until I 
> noticed that, each time, /var/log/pm-suspend.log was being written 
> to:
> 
> Initial commandline parameters:
> Mon Aug 31 12:53:31 EDT 2009: Running hooks for suspend.
> /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00auto-quirk suspend suspend: Adding quirks 
> from HAL: --quirk-dpms-on --quirk-dpms-suspend --quirk-vbe-post 
> --quirk-vbemode-restore --quirk-vbestate-restore --quirk-vga-mode-3
> 
> ... etc.
> 
> So, what the heck is driving this? Can anyone tell me what is calling 
> /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/*? This box is quickly becoming unusable.

If you don't need suspend, perhaps you can disable it?  Though I'm not 
sure if that will make it stop.

If you can't solve the problem, and you don't need fancy Power 
Management services, you can `yum remove gnome-power-manager`.  I did 
that and also removed gnome-screensaver, replacing both with 
xscreensaver.  I don't use suspend or hibernate, but I do want the 
display to sleep, and, as a bonus, I get better looking screensavers.  
I did lose the ability to switch users without first unlocking the 
screen.

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