[CentOS] no longer goes to standby when lid is closed

Fri Dec 11 16:04:37 UTC 2015
Richard <lists-centos at listmail.innovate.net>


> Date: Friday, December 11, 2015 10:57:25 -0500
> From: Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 03:42:21PM +0000, Richard wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> > Date: Friday, December 11, 2015 10:29:20 -0500
>> > From: Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
>> > 
>> > since I got the big bolus of updates from the CR repo a few days
>> > ago my netbook (AcerAspire One D255E) will no longer go to
>> > standby when the lid is closed.
>> > 
>> > This was a Gnome desktopp installation with theh MATE desktop
>> > fromm EPEL.
>> > 
>> > I've verified that the correct setting still exists in power
>> > manager but it persists in continuing to run when the lid
>> > closes.
>> > 
>> > it WILL go to standby if explicitly told to do so from the
>> > shutdown dialog.
>> > 
>> > Has anyone else seen anything like this?
>> > 
>> > TIA
>> > 
>> > Fred
>> 
>> Did you check epel (including -testing) for mate updates too? My
>> laptop with current CR and all mate updates (from both epel and
>> -testing) still suspends on a lid close. Since mate comes from
>> epel, that's where its updates will come from too. Also note that
>> there were a bunch of CR releases in the last day or two -- after
>> the initial large release.
> 
> yeah, as of a little while ago, "yum update" finds nothing to do.
> and EPEL is enabled.

There's a "mate-power-manager-1.10.2-3.el7" package in epel-testing.
Check to see if that's what you have installed. If not, enable their
-testing repo to get it.