[Bug 1760102] [NEW] Ubuntu 18.04: Please don't enable automatic suspend!

[Michael]

Public bug reported:

As already reported on
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-18.04-Auto-
Suspend, automatic suspend is enabled on desktop installations on 18.04.
This is a very, very bad thing, because many installations are used as a
server. Even on a desktop usage this is a very problematic setting (long
downloads or calculations, demonstrations etc.) So, do NOT enable this
without asking the user!

To make things worse, it seems to be both a user specific and a system
wide setting.

But by far the biggest problem is that this shitty setting is even
enabled during an upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 - without any warning! I
know, Ubuntu 18.04 is still in beta, but this is major problem which
will cause big headaches to many users which use their system as a
server. Luckily I have an IPMI as I have no physical access to this test
machine...

It seems that this happens only to Unity/Gnome, not on mate desktops,
but could be that this is caused by different desktop managers
(gdm/lightdm).

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: dist-upgrade regression-release regression-update update

** Tags added: dist-upgrade

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to update-manager in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1760102

Title:
  Ubuntu 18.04: Please don't enable automatic suspend!

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  As already reported on
  https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-18.04-Auto-
  Suspend, automatic suspend is enabled on desktop installations on
  18.04. This is a very, very bad thing, because many installations are
  used as a server. Even on a desktop usage this is a very problematic
  setting (long downloads or calculations, demonstrations etc.) So, do
  NOT enable this without asking the user!

  To make things worse, it seems to be both a user specific and a system
  wide setting.

  But by far the biggest problem is that this shitty setting is even
  enabled during an upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 - without any warning! I
  know, Ubuntu 18.04 is still in beta, but this is major problem which
  will cause big headaches to many users which use their system as a
  server. Luckily I have an IPMI as I have no physical access to this
  test machine...

  It seems that this happens only to Unity/Gnome, not on mate desktops,
  but could be that this is caused by different desktop managers
  (gdm/lightdm).

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1760102/+subscriptions