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Ignoramus11155

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Sep 19, 2008, 12:38:33 AM9/19/08
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My sister's Ubuntu Gutsy home server, just a basic Ubuntu Gutsy
install with GUI, somehow magically goes to "sleep" every so often for
unknown reasons (suspend). It is a little Dell desktop. It can wake up
if power button is pressed. But this is not the behaviour that one
expects from servers. We want it to be up all the time. What gives?

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Ignoramus11155

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Sep 19, 2008, 12:40:36 AM9/19/08
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prior to suspending itself it says in /var/log/messages

Sep 17 23:09:08 sisterspc kernel: [78514.820000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:0c.0 disabled

Chris Davies

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Sep 19, 2008, 3:54:27 AM9/19/08
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In comp.os.linux.misc Ignoramus11155 <ignoram...@nospam.11155.invalid> wrote:
> My sister's Ubuntu Gutsy home server, just a basic Ubuntu Gutsy
> install with GUI, somehow magically goes to "sleep" every so often for
> unknown reasons (suspend). It is a little Dell desktop. It can wake up
> if power button is pressed. But this is not the behaviour that one
> expects from servers. We want it to be up all the time. What gives?

I'm not familiar with UG, but do know Debian. My Debian laptop has a
Power Management GUI thingy that sets the suspend/hibernate idle
timeout (System > Preferences > Power Management). Failing that, you
could try uninstalling the uswsusp and hibernate packages.

Chris

Harold Stevens

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Sep 19, 2008, 7:52:23 AM9/19/08
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In <je2cq5x...@news.roaima.co.uk> Chris Davies:

[Snip...]

> Power Management GUI thingy that sets the suspend/hibernate idle

Shot in the dark...

I have some desktops that have "Power Management" options in the BIOS, and
some are not very friendly in typical BIOS default config as servers.

(Not that I'd prefer typical desktops as 24/7/365 servers, but I digress)

As an example (IIRC) one has a BIOS setting that defaults to spinning down
the disks after 30 minutes of inactivity. That's really going to crimp the
server response features. :)

So, I'd check the BIOS for these "power save" features, too.

JMO; YMMV...

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