Re: DESPARATE: How to stop FreeBSD form sleeping / disable ACPI? (on FreeBSD14 CURRENT)

> On Nov 11, 2022, at 4:29 AM, <louis.freebsd@xs4all.nl> <louis.freebsd@xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> I am still desperately trying to stop FreeBSD from sleeping, but I simply do not manage. 
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> 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!
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> It should ….. be possible to kill / stop ACPI some how 😊
> If absolutely not possible in the actual build 😊, a cron job restarting the timer every 5 minutes perhaps !!???
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> It is possible perhaps … that GNOME is initiating this, despite that the GUI powersetting is screenblank “NEVER”.  

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. 
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>  
> Louis
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> 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^.  
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> 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 .... 
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> 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.

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Most important for the moment is that the system keeps running / is not going down after x-time ! 
>  
> Louis

Best regards,
Zhenlei