Antw: [EXT] Re: [systemd‑devel] no log information about why machine is sleeping

["Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> George Avrunin <avrunin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 12.08.2021 um 01:44 in
Nachricht <20210811194453.2dd47326@g.localdomain>:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:24:25 ‑0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 05:11:21PM ‑0400, George Avrunin wrote:
>> > Aug 07 14:09:22 ext.math.umass.edu kernel: ACPI: Preparing to enter
>> > system sleep state S3  
>> 
>> That's suspend to ram. Depending on the distribution it may or not be a
>> a default after a period of time of idle. The idea is that moving a
>> mouse would resume it. For desktops this is stupid. Try:
>> 
>> systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target
>> hybrid‑sleep.targe
>> 
>> To re‑enable:
>> 
>> sudo systemctl unmask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target
>> hybrid‑sleep.target
>> 
>>   Luis
> 
> Thanks, masking the sleep, etc., targets will presumably stop it.  
> 
> But I don't think it was a default setting to suspend after a period of
> being idle, at least not once the machine was back on AC power (unless
> something got reset somehow). This machine is used as a mail and web
> server, as well as for some computations that my students and postdoc run
> remotely, and it's never done this before when there was no activity at
> the console. (And during the pandemic, there's been very little activity
> at the console‑‑we've all mostly been working from home.) 

Considering my previos message, that may answer while it does not go to sleep
while being connected.

> 
> So I'd still like to understand what caused it to start the suspend
> operation. If there's an easy way to get just a little bit more logging
> about that, it would help me and probably others.
> 
>   George