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layout: post
title: "PinePhone (Manjaro Phosh) automatic suspend bug"
date: 2023-06-15 22:23:51 +0100
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On 2023-06-06 I ran a system upgrade on my PinePhone (running Manjaro Phosh)
using `pacman -Syu`. Afterwards, automatic suspend stopped working.

## The symptoms

If you are in the lock screen and have the display turned off (this can
due to automatic blank screen, or due to manually pressing the power button),
then shortly before the automatic suspend timeout, the notification blue LED
will light up.

Previously (before the upgrade), if you ignore the notification, after
reaching the timeout, the notification will be cleared, and the PinePhone
will be suspended. If you turn on the screen before it suspended, it will
very briefly show a notification that the phone will be automatically
suspended. However the notification will clear itself almost immediately.

After the upgrade, the notification LED stays on, and the phone does not
suspend. When the screen is turned on again, it will always display the
notification (which will clear itself very quickly). Most notably, because
it does not actually suspend, *the battery drains itself within a few hours*.
I'd go to work in the morning (unplugging from the charger at 08:30),
arrive back home at 18:00 and the phone has already turned itself off.

## The solution

This has been provided by [@alaraajavamma:urheiluaki.org][1] from
[#pinephone][2].

    gsettings set sm.puri.phosh.notifications wakeup-screen-triggers []

Note that this needs to be run on a terminal on the PinePhone.
**It does not work via `ssh`**.

For future reference, the original value was `['urgency']`.

## Other observations

Things we tried and found out before reaching the solution.

 - Automatic suspend actually works if the display is turned on
   and not in the the lock screen.
 - `sudo systemctl suspend` - works.
 - `systemctl suspend` - works on a terminal on the PP.
   Does not work via `ssh`.
 - `systemd-inhibit --list` gives the following output:

       WHO            UID  USER    PID  COMM           WHAT                                                     WHY                                          MODE
       ModemManager   0    root    3533 ModemManager   sleep                                                    ModemManager needs to reset devices          delay
       NetworkManager 0    root    3513 NetworkManager sleep                                                    NetworkManager needs to turn off networks    delay
       UPower         0    root    3993 upowerd        sleep                                                    Pause device polling                         delay
       eg25manager    0    root    3311 eg25-manager   sleep                                                    eg25manager needs to prepare modem for sleep delay
       manjaro        1000 manjaro 3826 phosh          handle-power-key                                         Phosh handling power key                     block
       manjaro        1000 manjaro 4045 gsd-media-keys handle-power-key:handle-suspend-key:handle-hibernate-key GNOME handling keypresses                    block
       manjaro        1000 manjaro 4045 gsd-media-keys sleep                                                    GNOME handling keypresses                    delay
       manjaro        1000 manjaro 4046 gsd-power      sleep                                                    GNOME needs to lock the screen               delay
       manjaro        1000 manjaro 3826 phosh          sleep                                                    Phosh handling suspend                       delay

       9 inhibitors listed.


[1]: https://matrix.to/#/@alaraajavamma:urheiluaki.org
[2]: https://matrix.to/#/#pinephone:matrix.org