I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 x86-64. When I go to bed, I want to lock the screen and have backups run in the middle of the night. However, when I get to the computer in the morning, it has powered off/suspended. I do NOT want it to power off/suspend, because backups cannot happen.
- Settings->Power does not have an option for powering off when the computer is inactive.
- Automatic Suspend is set to "When on battery power". My computer is not on battery power when this happens.
The following settings are in force: (Note that sleep-inactive-ac-type is set to 'nothing', which should do nothing when the timeout is reached.)
% gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action 'nothing'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-critical 300
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power power-button-action 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-suspend-with-external-monitor false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-hibernate 'hibernate'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim false
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-power 'interactive'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-battery-action 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power priority 0
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-brightness 30
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power active true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power critical-battery-action 'hibernate'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-suspend 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-sleep 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-critical 3
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 3600
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type 'nothing'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power ambient-enabled true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power notify-perhaps-recall true
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-low 10
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-action 2
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-type 'suspend'
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-low 1200
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-timeout 1800
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power time-action 120
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power use-time-for-policy true
man journalctl
, check my AskUbuntu profile (click on my userid), there arejournalctl
anddate
command hints. Check the logs, using the--since=
and--until
options tojournalctl
.gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power
showssleep-inactive-ac-timeout 0
, butgsettings get com.canonical.unity.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout
outputs 1200. When logged in as my regular user thensu -
to get root.