Power button ignoring gnome-power-manager on FC8

[iamasmith]

I have two brand new FC8 installs on different hardware and both work quite well and provide suspend as well as hibernate as long as you select that from the shutdown menu in Gnome.

Gnome power manager is set to ask what to do if the power button is pressed but if I do press it on either system the system just kicks straight into shutdown.

Very strange since I took a look at the /etc/acpi/actions/power.sh script and can see that it shouldn't be kicking in if gnome-power-manager is running and if I run this script directly it behaves as expected and doesn't shut down.

So, can anybody suggest what may be kicking in instead of this script when I press the power button?... or just generally a fix to let Gnome handle it properly?

Both machines were installed from i386 media btw.. one from an install DVD and the other from a live media disk since there were problems with the DVD on that machine.

Regards,

-Andy

[PhillyFloyd]

Some trivial things to check before you start racking your brain:

- ensure that the button module is loaded and that acpi is installed/running (acpid)
- it sounds like you have configured the button press action to do what you want, that would be another thing to check, and as you noted the events are in /etc/acpi/events

[iamasmith]

Check and Check.. events in /etc/acpi/events are present too and acpid is still running.

Can't believe this isn't an FAQ atm since two radically different machines installed just now are doing the same thing.

(imho it isn't just me, I have fixed similar problems on other distros that had poor scripts... this looks all 'hunky dory' to me but it isn't behaving properly)

[PhillyFloyd]

what kind of "machines" are they?

[iamasmith]

OK getting closer now..

Original /etc/acpi/actions/power.sh =

[root@imp actions]# more power.sh.original
#!/bin/sh

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin

# Get the ID of the first active X11 session:
uid_session=$(
ck-list-sessions | \
awk '
/^Session[0-9]+:$/ { uid = active = x11 = "" ; next }
{ gsub(/'\''/, "", $3) }
$1 == "uid" { uid = $3 }
$1 == "active" { active = $3 }
$1 == "x11-display" { x11 = $3 }
active == "TRUE" && x11 != "" {
print uid
exit
}')

# Check that there is a power manager, otherwise shut down.
[ "$uid_session" ] &&
ps axo uid,cmd | \
awk '
$1 == '$uid_session' &&
($2 == "gnome-power-manager" || $2 == "kpowersave") \
{ found = 1; exit }
END { exit !found }
' ||
shutdown -h now

[root@imp actions]#

By replacing that shutdown -h with a list of commands echoing to /tmp/pm.log I found that ck-list-sessions isn't producing any output at all!

I haven't had a look at the source for ck-list-sessions yet but it isn't just a permission problem because I have just tried this again with ck-list-sessions with the sticky bit set.

Regards,

-Andy

[iamasmith]

Incidentally ck-list-sessions does produce output when run from a terminal and will pipe output to a file.

BTW the machines are HP DC7100 and a Packard Bell EasyNote XS (same as the Everex Cloubook but with 1Gb RAM).

Regards,

-Andy

[iamasmith]

Using username "andrews".
Authenticating with public key "andrews@voidwalker.local" from agent
Last login: Tue Feb 26 12:11:59 2008 from 172.16.250.75
[andrews@imp ~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/ck-list-sessions
ConsoleKit-0.2.3-1.fc8

Just in case anyone has any info on this tool.