Bug 327949 – x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.6 / gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager - "Session active, not inhibited, screen idle. If you can see this text, your display server is broken and you should notify your distributor."

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jacob Godserv 2010-07-12 15:56:20 UTC]

From http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/08/17/gnome-power-manager-and-blanking-removal-of-bodges/ :

"For gnome-power-manager, we set up a XSync alarm for IDLE counter being over a certain value, and then we set up a XSync alarm for the IDLE counter being reset. When the alarm goes off we wait the policy time for the “display sleep” and then turn off the panel using DPMS. Which then resets the idletime, which turns the panel back on. Urgh."

And farther down:

"So, the only way to fix gnome-power-manager and remove all these ugly kludges would be to fix the xserver. I’ve sent two patches to xorg-devel which remove the IDLECOUNTER reset when DPMS off is sent. The second upstream patch is here [1].

"So, I’ll remove the kludges from gnome-power-manager git master today and will depend on a runtime version of the xserver that has these patches applied. If you are trying to run gnome-power-manager with a broken version of X, gnome-power-manager will warn you in the notification area. Distributors will just need to patch xserver with my previous patch [2] and the current one [1] to have all the issues resolved with git master."

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/patch/?id=6b5978dcf1f7ac3ecc2f22df06f7000f360e2066
[2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/patch/?id=db568f9eabf3450d8a023597ff007df355b13ea8

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




 $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.33-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.33-gentoo-r2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P8800_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p37
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4, 4.4.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-pipe -march=core2 -msse4.1 -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-pipe -march=core2 -msse4.1 -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests collision-protect distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 "
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cjk cleartype cli consolekit corefonts cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus divx dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipod ipv6 jpeg laptop lcms ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mtp mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs syslog tcpd theora tiff truetype type1 unicode usb vorbis wifi x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa fbdev" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2010-07-19 22:11:22 UTC]

Both these patches have been included in xorg-server 1.7 and up.

Please tell us where you see that warning message and which versions of gnome-power-manager you have, I'd be tempted to put the blame there.

Thanks

[Comment 2 Jacob Godserv 2010-07-20 00:50:53 UTC]

 ~ $ eix -ce xorg-server && eix -ce gnome-power-manager
[I] x11-base/xorg-server (1.7.6@04/19/2010): X.Org X servers
[I] gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager (2.28.3@06/29/2010): Gnome Power Manager

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2010-07-20 16:36:19 UTC]

Maybe you could try with Gnome 2.30, there is a keyword list in bug 324077

Good luck!

[Comment 4 Jacob Godserv 2010-07-22 01:01:04 UTC]

Since upgrading to 2.30 is not really in my best interests right now (I like my machine stable :) this bug will remain dormant until 2.30 is marked stable for amd64.