** Summary changed: - non-X VTs should use energy star + regression: non-X VTs stopped using energy star after xenial
** Description changed: - it's simple. it's easy. let's get our servers being good energy star - citizens shall we? + as of xenial, non-X VTs timed out and powered down even if nobody ever + logged in. but that's no longer true in bionic and focal. if a VT is running X at all, whether that's running sddm and never logged in, or sddm and logged-in, or not running sddm and simply logged- in and running X started with startx, that VT will timeout and - powerdown. so far so good. + powerdown, even on bionic and focal. no problem there. but a VT that's either running getty, or logged in and just running - bash, will stay powered up and blazing away forever, whether it's ubuntu - server 20.04, lubuntu 20.04, or centos 8. + bash, will stay powered up and blazing away forever, if it's ubuntu + 18.04 or 20.04, server or lubuntu. or centos 8. so probably RHEL 8 too, so probably most servers, aren't being good - energy star citizens! boo! + energy star citizens anymore. something happened since xenial. the util-linux package is used by both centos 8 and ubuntu 20.04, and contains both getty and setterm. - thus getty seems to me to be the sensible place to call: + probably getty would be the place, that either used to call, or should + now call: setterm -term=linux -powersave=powerdown -powerdown=15 -store>/dev/tty0</dev/tty0 - such that a VT running getty, or logged in and running bash, would then - timeout and powerdown. + after giving that command, a VT running getty, or logged in and running + bash, will then timeout and powerdown. i wonder why it's not happening + anymore? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: systemd 245.4-4ubuntu3.4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-62.70-generic 5.4.78 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-62-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.14 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass Date: Tue Jan 19 05:13:35 2021 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-12-28 (21 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731) MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF ProcEnviron: TERM=screen PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=C.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/fs/boot/vmlinuz ro root=UUID=a671d866-a05f-4b83-8714-0b448b1eeac4 subroot=/fs init=/fs/etc/g/subroot SourcePackage: systemd UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 07/15/2014 dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.bios.version: L01 v02.33 dmi.board.name: 1998 dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.chassis.type: 4 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrL01v02.33:bd07/15/2014:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPEliteDesk800G1SFF:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1998:rvr:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct4:cvr: dmi.product.family: 103C_53307F G=D dmi.product.name: HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF dmi.product.sku: J6D79UT#ABA dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1912330 Title: regression: non-X VTs stopped using energy star after xenial To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1912330/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
