[Bug 869017] Re: Ubuntu server enables screenblanking, concealing crashdumps (DPMS is not used)

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This bug was fixed in the package kbd - 1.15.5-1ubuntu4

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kbd (1.15.5-1ubuntu4) wily; urgency=medium

  * debian/conffiles.d/config: Disable automatic virtual console screen blank
    - Don't blank screen on virtual consoles, because most systems running
      without X are headless and when they are connected to a monitor for
      debugging the screen should not be blank
    - LP: #869017

 -- Wesley Wiedenmeier <wesley.wiedenmeier at canonical.com>  Tue, 04 Aug
2015 18:32:04 +0000

** Changed in: kbd (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  Ubuntu server enables screenblanking, concealing crashdumps (DPMS is
  not used)

Status in kbd package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  James Rice of Jump Networks noticed that there is a screen-blanker
  enabled on Ubuntu Server.

  James notes that this blanking is not enabling DPMS power saving
  (thereby negating any power-saving benefit), and is simply turning the
  screen content blank.   This means that the crash output is invisible
  which is unhelpful on a server (virtual or otherwise).

  Ideally the screen should (at a minimum) be turned on and unblanked at
  the point of an OOPs/crash being printed.

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