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Beni Bogosel
Asked: 2016-09-01 07:29:03 +0800 CST

Disable systemd inhibitors

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Ever since I changed to Xubuntu 16.04 there is an annoying behavior when suspending my laptop: it seems like there's a delay so that the network manager can turn off. This causes long suspend and resume time. The new times are 10-15 seconds which are way longer than what I had before...

Anyway, it seems like systemd-inhibit may be responsible for this. The command systemd-inhibit lists the delay before sleep since NetworkManager needs to turn off networks. There's also another inhibitor which blocks completely xfce4 power management.

How can I get rid of the systemd inhibitors? It is possible to disable them somehow?

16.04

2 Answers

  1. I had the same problem and the following fixed it for me:

    edit the file /etc/systemd/logind.conf:

    sudo nano /etc/systemd/logind.conf

    There is a list of entries that define, among other things, delay times for systemd (and systemd-inhibit!)

    I uncommented (removed the leading #) from this line:

    InhibitDelayMaxSec=5

    and saved the file. That immediately remedied the delay. When I close the laptop lid, the system goes to suspend immediately.

    Reference - freedesktop.org

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  2. First find run locate org.freedesktop.login1.policy to find where the file is located then open it in a text editor, for example.

    Find the block corresponding to <action id="org.freedesktop.login1.inhibit-block-idle"> and make sure you have

    <defaults>
   <allow_any>yes</allow_any>
   <allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
   <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
</defaults>

    The problem was that before only root users could bypass the inhibitors. Now the system suspends like before in just a few seconds.

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