When screen locks my computer goes to sleep and I lose lan connection

nicholasalipaz · 2016-02-25 17:11:39

I have a desktop computer and whenever my screen locks from inactivity my lan also disconnects. How can I keep the wired connection?

bl-Hydrogen-rc2-amd64

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	BunsenLabs
Description:	BunsenLabs GNU/Linux 8.3 (Hydrogen)
Release:	8.3
Codename:	bunsen-hydrogen

I chose the option for *not a laptop* in the bl-welcome during first boot.

$ cat ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-power-manager.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<channel name="xfce4-power-manager" version="1.0">
  <property name="xfce4-power-manager" type="empty">
    <property name="power-button-action" type="empty"/>
    <property name="lid-action-on-ac" type="uint" value="1"/>
    <property name="lid-action-on-battery" type="uint" value="1"/>
    <property name="critical-power-action" type="uint" value="1"/>
    <property name="show-tray-icon" type="uint" value="1"/>
    <property name="brightness-switch-restore-on-exit" type="int" value="1"/>
    <property name="brightness-switch" type="int" value="1"/>
    <property name="blank-on-ac" type="int" value="10"/>
    <property name="dpms-on-ac-sleep" type="uint" value="0"/>
    <property name="handle-brightness-keys" type="bool" value="false"/>
    <property name="dpms-on-ac-off" type="uint" value="15"/>
    <property name="brightness-level-on-ac" type="uint" value="80"/>
  </property>
</channel>

** Note: I have updated the title to reflect the issue at hand a little better. (2016.03.02)

Last edited by nicholasalipaz (2016-03-02 17:07:06)

tknomanzr · 2016-02-25 17:55:16

If your computer is going to sleep and you are using NetworkManager, then that is it's expected behavior during sleep (ie systemd will stop the NetworkManager service, then restart it once it comes out of sleep.) You could try disabling suspend and see if that helps.

nicholasalipaz · 2016-02-25 18:36:43

I am fairly sure I have the suspend option for inactivity set to "never". Am I missing something?

tknomanzr · 2016-02-25 19:29:32

Try this and see if it works:

sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target

To enable it back do this:

sudo systemctl unmask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target

According to what I am seeing, your machine should not be going to sleep. One other option, if you do not require screen locking would be to disable light-locker, which would prevent the machine from kicking back to lightdm login.

nicholasalipaz · 2016-02-26 20:14:44

so I did try the first command and that didn't help. I was able to confirm this morning. I do however need the screen locking so that is not really an option.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-02-26 20:44:03

Try adding the ethernet connection to /etc/network/interfaces and see if that keeps it up (so to speak).

These lines should be all you need:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

If your interface is not called "eth0", change the name to match yours (use `ip l` to list all interface names).

See interfaces(5)

nicholasalipaz · 2016-02-26 21:51:32

Head_on_a_Stick, thanks. I have added that and commented out the prior bit:

$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
#auto lo
#iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

I will see how it goes and report back later.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-02-26 22:02:22

nicholasalipaz wrote:

commented out the prior bit

Don't do that!

You need the loopback interface

nicholasalipaz · 2016-02-26 22:33:45

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

nicholasalipaz wrote:
commented out the prior bit
Don't do that!
You need the loopback interface

Thanks! Glad I didn't restart my network connection yet...

nicholasalipaz · 2016-03-01 22:58:08

So I have been testing this and it still seems it isn't solved. After more thought, it seems my computer is indeed going to sleep when the screen timeout of 10 minutes occurs. However my settings are set that that should not be the case.

tknomanzr · 2016-03-01 23:19:39

Thta is kind of what I was thinking. Are you on BL RC2 yet? I am thinking that something is up with xfce4-power-manager, most notably the security tab for light-locker is missing. We do offer a backported xfce4-power-manager which might solve this.

Last edited by tknomanzr (2016-03-01 23:20:04)

nicholasalipaz · 2016-03-01 23:20:44

I am on RC2 yes.

nicholasalipaz · 2016-03-01 23:28:13

I don't see anything in my sources by default:

$ apt-cache policy xfce4-power-manager
xfce4-power-manager:
  Installed: 1.4.1-1
  Candidate: 1.4.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.4.1-1 0
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

tknomanzr · 2016-03-01 23:33:38

OK. You probably want the backported version which will be 1.4.4-4

jessie-backports

This is an auxiliary repository containing packages backported from Debian testing and imported from Ubuntu.

Set up /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen-jessie-backports.list with the following contents:

deb http://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian jessie-backports main
The backports repo’s packages will have a pin priority of 100, so regular jessie packages will continue to take precedence until you explicitly install a backported package.

To upgrade a package to its backports version, target the backports distribution as follows:

sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install ${PACKAGE_NAME}
Subsequent package upgrades will be installed from the backports repo or the regular repository, whichever package version is higher.

nicholasalipaz · 2016-03-02 00:11:51

Weird, so as you saw in my prior

$ apt-cache policy xfce4-power-manager

there is not currently jessie-backports listed or other candidate packages.

looking at my sources:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-jessie-backports.list 
# added by bl-welcome
# Debian backports
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free

It seems as though I have jessie-backports already added. So in hopes of fixing the issue I ran:

$ sudo apt-get update
...
$ sudo apt-cache policy xfce4-power-manager
xfce4-power-manager:
  Installed: 1.4.1-1
  Candidate: 1.4.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.4.1-1 0
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
...meh...
$ sudo apt-get install xfce4-power-manager -t jessie-backports
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
xfce4-power-manager is already the newest version.

Stranger and stranger...

tknomanzr · 2016-03-02 00:34:42

OK. I may be ahead of you as I track Sid. I just noticed that they backported it from Stretch and assumed it would be the same version but obviously not. Something is up with it however. I think I would try to purge it, then reinstall the backported version. It should look like this and the above scrot you posted looks way different:

Note: I have screenlocking turned off in this case but that shouldn't matter. Your machine should not be sleeping, accodring to what I saw and I don't believe systemd is intercepting things. However, for the sake of completeness, /etc/systemd/logind.conf should look like this:

#  This file is part of systemd.
#
#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
#  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.
#
# Entries in this file show the compile time defaults.
# You can change settings by editing this file.
# Defaults can be restored by simply deleting this file.
#
# See logind.conf(5) for details.

[Login]
#NAutoVTs=6
#ReserveVT=6
#KillUserProcesses=no
#KillOnlyUsers=
#KillExcludeUsers=root
#InhibitDelayMaxSec=5
#HandlePowerKey=poweroff
#HandleSuspendKey=suspend
#HandleHibernateKey=hibernate
#HandleLidSwitch=suspend
#HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore
#PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#SuspendKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#HibernateKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=yes
#HoldoffTimeoutSec=30s
#IdleAction=ignore
#IdleActionSec=30min
#RuntimeDirectorySize=10%
#RemoveIPC=yes
#UserTasksMax=12288

damo · 2016-03-02 00:36:21

^^You need the bunsenlabs jessie-backports. @tknomanzr posted the instructions ^ (also available on the BL site https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/)

The terminology is confusing, I agree, and there is some dev discussion about changing the repo name. But that isn't quite so straightforward atm it seems.

Current version is `1.4.4-4~bpo8+1`

ohnonot · 2016-03-02 07:30:10

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Try adding the ethernet connection to /etc/network/interfaces and see if that keeps it up (so to speak).
These lines should be all you need:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
If your interface is not called "eth0", change the name to match yours (use `ip l` to list all interface names).

nicholasalipaz wrote:

Thanks! Glad I didn't restart my network connection yet...

i'm pretty sure it is prudent to actually reboot the machine after this change.

nicholasalipaz · 2016-03-02 17:05:30

ohnonot wrote:

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
Try adding the ethernet connection to /etc/network/interfaces and see if that keeps it up (so to speak).
These lines should be all you need:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
If your interface is not called "eth0", change the name to match yours (use `ip l` to list all interface names).
nicholasalipaz wrote:
Thanks! Glad I didn't restart my network connection yet...
i'm pretty sure it is prudent to actually reboot the machine after this change.

Sure, but I was only meaning to say I had yet to do so, and I am glad I had not done it yet.

So I installed the latest from bunsenlabs' (didn't notice how the url was on bunsenlabs.org in prior post) jessie-backports repo however I am not getting anything different, my computer sleeps whenever the screen locks.

$ apt-cache policy xfce4-power-manager
xfce4-power-manager:
  Installed: 1.4.4-4~bpo8+1
  Candidate: 1.4.4-4~bpo8+1
  Version table:
 *** 1.4.4-4~bpo8+1 0
        100 http://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian/ jessie-backports/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.4.1-1 0
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages

nicholasalipaz · 2016-03-02 17:22:24

tknomanzr wrote:

OK. I may be ahead of you as I track Sid. I just noticed that they backported it from Stretch and assumed it would be the same version but obviously not. Something is up with it however. I think I would try to purge it, then reinstall the backported version. It should look like this and the above scrot you posted looks way different:
https://cdn.scrot.moe/images/2016/03/02/2016-03-01-18-29-35_scrot.th.png
...

tknomanzr, can you tell me the version number for xfce4-power-manager that you are running?

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