[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#731649: Bug#731649: systemd: sleep key no longer suspends - just locks + blanks screen

[Jonathan McDowell]

Control: reassign -1 gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.5-2

On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 09:38:06PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 07.12.2013 21:17, schrieb Jonathan McDowell:
> > Package: systemd
> > Version: 204-5
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > This could be a gnome-power-manager (3.8.2-1) or upower (0.9.23-2+b1)
> > issue, but it seems to have started at the point a GNOME upgrade pulled
> > in systemd for logind.
> > 
> > Since this time my laptop's sleep button no longer works correctly.
> > Pressing it results in the screen being locked and the LCD being turned
> > off, but doesn't actually suspend the laptop. I get the following errorse 
> > in /var/log/daemon.log:
> > 
> > Dec  7 12:12:59 makguksu dbus[3877]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' (using servicehelper)
> > Dec  7 12:12:59 makguksu dbus[3877]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
> > 
> > Choosing the "Suspend" menu option from the GNOME panel or invoking
> > pm-suspend from the command line both continue to work fine. I've tried
> > setting HandleSuspendKey to both ignore and suspend in
> > /etc/systemd/logind.conf (rather than the default commented out option)
> > and neither seems to change the behaviour.
> > 
> > I am not running systemd as my init; still using sysvinit (2.88dsf-43).
> 
> suspend/hibernate requires systemd = PID 1
> logind just forwards the request to systemd.
> 
> IIRC the gnome-shell menu still calls upower.
> The component which handles lid close events in GNOME is
> gnome-settings-daemon and that package has been switched to work with
> systemd/logind.
> 
> Upstream not really supports a standalone logind, this is one reasons why.

This seems broken; I'd expect some consistency amongst the GNOME
components (and I'd like them not to break functionality on upgrades,
which I guess means they shouldn't be using systemd until there's been a
determination about the Debian init system).

J.

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