Bug#834148: systemd-inhibit no longer respected

[martin f krafft]

Package: systemd
Version: 231-1
Severity: important
File: /bin/systemd-inhibit

I've been running processes, such as backup or sync tools, as
children of 'systemd-inhibit --what=handle-lid-switch' to make sure
that the system doesn't suspend when I close the lid until the
processes have finished.

A few weeks ago, this just stopped working. Now, if I run e.g.

  systemd-inhibit cat

and close the lid, the system just suspends without any log entries,
errors, or additional information. The inhibitor is listed
nonetheless in the plain --list output.

I'd love to provide more information, but I wouldn't even know where
to start collecting it.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser         3.115
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-3
ii  libapparmor1    2.10.95-4
ii  libaudit1       1:2.6.5-1
ii  libblkid1       2.28-6
ii  libc6           2.23-4
ii  libcap2         1:2.25-1
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.25-1
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.7.0-2
ii  libgcrypt20     1.7.2-2
ii  libgpg-error0   1.24-1
ii  libidn11        1.33-1
ii  libkmod2        22-1.1
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
ii  libmount1       2.28-6
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.3
ii  libseccomp2     2.3.1-2
ii  libselinux1     2.5-3
ii  libsystemd0     231-1
ii  mount           2.28-6
ii  util-linux      2.28-6

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.10.8-1
ii  libpam-systemd  231-1

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-1        0.105-16
pn  systemd-container  <none>
pn  systemd-ui         <none>

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
ii  udev  231-1

-- no debconf information


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