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squgeim

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Registered: 2015-04-29

Posts: 3

Gnome 3.16 Can't Suspend With Media Player Open

I have been seeing this problem since I updraded to Gnome 3.16. I use GDM.

Normally when I close the laptop lid, the computer is suspended (the power led changes color and starts blinking). But sometimes, when the lid is closed, the system seems to get stuck. The power led doesnot change color, and when I open the lid after some time, the screen is blank but I can't seem to wake it up. I can hear a slight humming (I guess it's the harddisk). I have to turn it off with the power button, and when I start the computer back there is a bunch of "Orpaned node removed" messages. The longer I leave the system in that state the more is these messages.

After a few hit and trial I figured out that every time the system went to that state there was some media player running (Rhymbox, VLC, Banshee, Audacious). They don't need to be playing, even when they are just open. So I guess the bug is in something common between them. Maybe they have some interface with gnome-shell or gdm to supress screenlock when they are playing and the bug is there?

Here is the output to uname -a

Linux squgeim-V5473 3.19.3-3-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 8 14:10:00 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Here is the /etc/systemd/login.conf file:

[Login]
#NAutoVTs=6
#ReserveVT=6
#KillUserProcesses=no
#KillOnlyUsers=
#KillExcludeUsers=root
#InhibitDelayMaxSec=5
#HandlePowerKey=poweroff
#HandleSuspendKey=suspend
#HandleHibernateKey=hibernate
#HandleLidSwitch=suspend
#HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore
#PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#SuspendKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#HibernateKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=yes
#IdleAction=ignore
#IdleActionSec=30min
#RuntimeDirectorySize=10%
#RemoveIPC=yes

I have tried uncommenting the HandleLidSwitch. When uncommented the system is not suspended at all.

Can someone point to any fix or to where exactly the bug is, so I can file a bug report.

squgeim

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Registered: 2015-04-29

Posts: 3

Re: Gnome 3.16 Can't Suspend With Media Player Open

This issue has since been resolved. I do not know how. I did a system update yesterday and it had updates for linux kernel and gnome, so maybe that was that.