[arch-general] my Arch box randomly becomes irresponsible

Not To Miss not.to.miss at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 17:08:29 EDT 2012


hah, excuse my poor English

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sunday 15 Jul 2012 22:06:01 Not To Miss wrote:
> > Dear Arch users,
> >
> > I have latest Arch installed on my desktop at work. In recent two weeks,
> > the system randomly "suspends" at night (I call it "randomly" because it
> > didn't happen every night. And it seems to happen after a random period
> > idle time) when I am off. I can't wake it up in the next morning thru
> mouse
> > or keyboard.
> >
> > I tried to disable suspension and hibernation by editing
> > /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.upower.policy to change
> > from
> > <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
> > to
> > <allow_active>no</allow_active>
> >
> > But it doesn't work.
> >
> > While I call it "suspend", I am not sure it suspend to RAM or hibernate
> to
> > disk, because I find the CPU fan and power fan still spin normally. RAM
> > light is also on. So it might be a video driver / setting related issue.
> > For your information, I am using nvidia-302.17-2-x86_64 and have dual
> > monitor set up with nvidia-utils-302.17-1-x86_64
> >
> > This really bothers me a lot. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Completely off-topic, but am I the only one that chuckled at this title?  A
> very minor mistake, but "irresponsible" means "not responsible", and
> brings to
> mind pictures of your computer spending all your money, running an
> anonymous
> proxy without asking you, or maybe sending prank e-mails to your friends.
> Maybe you're dealing with a teenage computer? :p
>
> You meant to say "unresponsive", but we all understood what you meant to
> say.
>
> Paul
>



-- 
Best,
Zech


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