[Bug 1912330] Re: non-X VTs should use energy star

[gregrwm]

** Description changed:

  it's simple.  it's easy.  let's get our servers being good energy star
  citizens shall we?
  
  if a VT is running X at all, whether that's running sddm and never
  logged in, or sddm and logged-in, or not running sddm and simply logged-
  in and running X started with startx, that VT will timeout and
  powerdown.  so far so good.
  
  but a VT that's either running getty, or logged in and just running
  bash, will stay powered up and blazing away forever, whether it's ubuntu
  server 20.04, lubuntu 20.04, or centos 8.
  
  so probably RHEL 8 too, so probably most servers, aren't being good
  energy star citizens!  boo!
  
  the util-linux package is used by both centos 8 and ubuntu 20.04, and
  contains both getty and setterm.
  
  thus getty seems to me to be the sensible place to call:
  
-     setterm -powersave=powerdown -powerdown=15 -store
+ setterm -term=linux -powersave=powerdown -powerdown=15
+ -store>/dev/tty0</dev/tty0
  
  such that a VT running getty, or logged in and running bash, would then
  timeout and powerdown.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: systemd 245.4-4ubuntu3.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-62.70-generic 5.4.78
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-62-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.14
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  Date: Tue Jan 19 05:13:35 2021
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-12-28 (21 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
  MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=C.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/fs/boot/vmlinuz ro root=UUID=a671d866-a05f-4b83-8714-0b448b1eeac4 subroot=/fs init=/fs/etc/g/subroot
  SourcePackage: systemd
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 07/15/2014
  dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.bios.version: L01 v02.33
  dmi.board.name: 1998
  dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.chassis.type: 4
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrL01v02.33:bd07/15/2014:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPEliteDesk800G1SFF:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1998:rvr:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct4:cvr:
  dmi.product.family: 103C_53307F G=D
  dmi.product.name: HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF
  dmi.product.sku: J6D79UT#ABA
  dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

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Title:
  non-X VTs should use energy star

Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  it's simple.  it's easy.  let's get our servers being good energy star
  citizens shall we?

  if a VT is running X at all, whether that's running sddm and never
  logged in, or sddm and logged-in, or not running sddm and simply
  logged-in and running X started with startx, that VT will timeout and
  powerdown.  so far so good.

  but a VT that's either running getty, or logged in and just running
  bash, will stay powered up and blazing away forever, whether it's
  ubuntu server 20.04, lubuntu 20.04, or centos 8.

  so probably RHEL 8 too, so probably most servers, aren't being good
  energy star citizens!  boo!

  the util-linux package is used by both centos 8 and ubuntu 20.04, and
  contains both getty and setterm.

  thus getty seems to me to be the sensible place to call:

  setterm -term=linux -powersave=powerdown -powerdown=15
  -store>/dev/tty0</dev/tty0

  such that a VT running getty, or logged in and running bash, would
  then timeout and powerdown.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: systemd 245.4-4ubuntu3.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-62.70-generic 5.4.78
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-62-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.14
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  Date: Tue Jan 19 05:13:35 2021
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-12-28 (21 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
  MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=C.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/fs/boot/vmlinuz ro root=UUID=a671d866-a05f-4b83-8714-0b448b1eeac4 subroot=/fs init=/fs/etc/g/subroot
  SourcePackage: systemd
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 07/15/2014
  dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.bios.version: L01 v02.33
  dmi.board.name: 1998
  dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.chassis.type: 4
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrL01v02.33:bd07/15/2014:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPEliteDesk800G1SFF:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1998:rvr:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct4:cvr:
  dmi.product.family: 103C_53307F G=D
  dmi.product.name: HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF
  dmi.product.sku: J6D79UT#ABA
  dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

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