rogue suspend is driving me nuts

[brian]

On 08/31/2009 06:05 PM, Tony Nelson wrote:
> 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.

That's the thing: I don't know how. I've already disabled everything I 
can find related to power management. I should have mentioned that (it 
was in my earlier thread).

Also, these suspends happen both when the box is idle and not (while 
typing, for instance). And I've never been able to bring it out of suspend.

I wonder if it's related to the bug where the screen blanks 
occasionally. I've also been seeing that.

> 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.
>

OK, I've done that. I should know by tomorrow if it worked, as this box 
has been shutting down several times a day.