Power button respons slow on HP 6730b upgraded to 11.4

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I tend to use the power button on my HP 5730b notebook to have it showing the logoff/reboot/shutdown dialog. Though this still works as a default settings in 11.4 it responds quite slow.

Once I press the power button, the KDE panels become unresponsive for about 20 seconds or so, until the logoff/reboot/shutdown dialog is shown. After that the system behaves as usual. I do not have this problem when I perform the same function from the openSUSE KDE menu.

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I did some extra research:

  • It does work when I press perform the same action after switching to the console using ctrl-alt-F1 (still in runlevel 5 though)
  • With acpi_listen running I see the button pressing event appear immediately, but the system waits a while to process is, problably some kind of time out somewhere.

Therefore I think it is KDE related.

3

Me too (on a Dell M4500).

I have the power button set to shutdown, but when I press the button, nothing seems to happen at all. Then the systems seems to freeze for a while, and eventually it shuts itself down.

It worked fine before upgrading to 11.4, and while a shutdown through the launcher also appears to be much slower now, it is still much faster than pressing the button.

4

I experience the same problem as well
when pressing power button, the shut down prompt takes about 20 seconds to show up, i dont feel any sort of lag or anything
so i think this is indeed some time-out stuff, maybe a mis-configuration?

5

I have Acer 7730G and same problem. I think we should post this to bugzilla or something like this.

6

I already did, it is bug 680741

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Same here (HP DV7 KDE4.6), it also freezes my screen when I press ther power button, cant revive it with ALT+F1 or ALT+CTRL+F1, etc or ALT+CTRL+BACKSPACE. I tried to ping, ssh, etc my notebook from another PC and it wont respond.

The only thing that works is ALT+CTRL+SYSREQ+b and makes a hard reboot or something (I have this enabled in kernel)

I see this message error in the pm-poweroff


cat pm-powersave.log
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/disable_wol false:
Setting Wake On Lan for eth0 to enable...Done.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/disable_wol false: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/hal-cd-polling false:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/hal-cd-polling false: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/intel-audio-powersave false:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/intel-audio-powersave false: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/journal-commit false:
Setting journal commit time for / to 0...Done.
Setting journal commit time for /DATA to 0...Done.
Setting journal commit time for /home to 0...Done.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/journal-commit false: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/laptop-mode false:
Laptop mode disabled.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/laptop-mode false: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/pcie_aspm false:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/pcie_aspm false: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/readahead false:
Setting readahead for /dev/sda6 to 256...Done.
Setting readahead for /dev/sda1 to 256...Done.
Setting readahead for /dev/sdb1 to 256...Done.
Setting readahead for /dev/sda7 to 256...Done.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/readahead false: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/sata_alpm false:
Setting SATA APLM on host0 to max_performance...Done.
Setting SATA APLM on host1 to max_performance...Done.
Setting SATA APLM on host2 to max_performance...Done.
Setting SATA APLM on host3 to max_performance...Done.
Setting SATA APLM on host4 to max_performance...Done.
Setting SATA APLM on host5 to max_performance...Done.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/sata_alpm false: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/sched-powersave false:
**sched policy powersave OFF

/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/sched-powersave false: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/wireless false:
Turning powersave for wlan0 off...Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
Failed.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/wireless false: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/xfs_buffer false:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/xfs_buffer false: success.

Is this wrong?
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/wireless false:
Turning powersave for wlan0 off…Error for wireless request “Set Power Management” (8B2C) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
Failed.

Hope this helps…