> On Nov 11, 2022, at 4:29 AM, <louis.free...@xs4all.nl> > <louis.free...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > I am still desperately trying to stop FreeBSD from sleeping, but I simply do > not manage. > > It is really very annoying that I have to restart the machine every 10 > minutes, when I am working via SSH.
I think you will need to find the event triggering sleep (ACPI s1 / s3) every 10 minutes. > So if any one has a solution, it would be very much appreciated! > > It should β¦.. be possible to kill / stop ACPI some how π > If absolutely not possible in the actual build π, a cron job restarting the > timer every 5 minutes perhaps !!??? > > It is possible perhaps β¦ that GNOME is initiating this, despite that the GUI > powersetting is screenblank βNEVERβ. Probably. (or some other components of the GNOME) I've dozens of VMs / baremetal machines used as servers and routers. None of them sleep (without explicitly means such as acpiconf). I've not use FreeBSD as desktop since about ten year ago. > Whatever is causing the problem, the settings should be such that ^no > whatever program^ should not be capable to initiate the sleepmode. > > > Louis > ------------------------ > I need to disable acpi and the indicated method for that is to add > ^hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"^ in /boot/loader.conf . > However that crashes my system !!!!!! > Not only that, to make it work again I have to edit loader.conf on a system > which does ^not start^. > > After a lot of searching Internet came to the help with, I could start the > system again: > 1. Select 3. Escape to loader prompt at the splash screen > 2. Type set hint.acpi.0.disabled="0" on the loader prompt > 3. Then type boot on the loader prompt > edit the loader.conf > Very very glad with that fix however > > However the problem is still there, no idea how to prevent the system from > going to sleep (after about 10 minutes). > No idea how to change those 10 minutes to a much longer time as well .... > > Note that I have gnome as gui and use the system more or less as server and > manage the machine partly local via the GUI and partly remote via SSH. I think you can disable GUI / GNOME completely and try again. > > Related to GNOME I did try ^gsettings set > org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 0^, however > that did not solve the problem as well. > > In the end there seems to two problems > a) A BSD-issue ACPI-turn off in the bootloader is crashing the system ! ! and > b) a GNOME issue (switching the system off during user inactivity, which is > bullshit for a server / for ssh-login / with multiple users). > What IMHO apart from the screen lock, this is not a GNOME task but an OS > function to be configured by the system administrator. > > A third problem, not to be addressed here, is that recovery from sleep mode > does not work on my system as well (even not S1). > > Most important for the moment is that the system keeps running / is not going > down after x-time ! > > Louis Best regards, Zhenlei