Bug#761652: Closing lid with multiple sessions open fails with an polkit authentication session on the inactive session

[Michael Biebl]

Control: reassign -1 powerdevil

On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:21:41 +0200 Didier Raboud <odyx at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 208-8
> Severity: important
> File: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.login1.policy
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as discussed today on IRC with sjoerd, here's my use-case: I routinely
> have two KDE sessions open and want my laptop lid closure to always
> suspend the (X220 Thinkpad) laptop. According to
> /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.login1.policy , this is what
> should happen.
> 
> Besides, it doesn't: when closing the laptop lid, the two sessions get
> locked by KDE and the _inactive_ session gets a (hidden by the locking
> screen) PolKit authentication screen. The laptop doesn't suspend (as
> the action is inhibited by this authentication screen). When opening the
> lid, I can unlock the inactive session and authenticate through the
> PolKit authentication window and the laptop suspens _then_.
> 
> (The doubly annoying factor is that I use fprintd for this inactive
> session, which means that on lid closure, the fingerprint reader powers
> up, heats _and_ is inaccessible as below the screen. [It powers up for
> the PolKit authentication window]).
> 
> Now, I've investigated and added a
> /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/force-suspend.pkla file with the
> following content:
> 	[Enforce the suspension on lid close]
> 	Identity=unix-user:*
> 	Action=org.freedesktop.login1.suspend-multiple-sessions
> 	ResultInactive=no
> 
> (That's a transformation of the corresponding
> <allow_inactive>auth_admin_keep</allow_inactive> from
> /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.login1.policy into
> <...>no<...>)
> 
> The addition of this file makes the suspension work reliably from any of
> the two active sessions, without a prompt on the other (inactive)
> session. I suggest changing the value of allow_inactive for
> suspend-multiple-sessions to 'no' then.
> 
> Please ask if you need other details on my setup.
> 
> Cheers,

Given the upstream response, I'm going to re-assign this to powerdevil.
CCing the maintainers, so quoting the full message.

Regards,
Michael


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