My guess is that something in your kernel or your configuration is causing it; I have been running Gentoo on a Mini for awhile and never noticed it going to sleep without me telling it to.
Try compiling your own kernel, and/or checking out your ACPI set up. I imagine that maybe acpid is telling the machine to go to sleep due to inactivity. I'm pretty sure that by disabling ACPI/Sleep in the kernel, you can avoid this problem entirely. -- Erik On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 02:53:52PM +0100, Christoph Langguth wrote: > Hi all, > > first off, I'm sorry to bother you with a slightly off-topic post, but I > guess that the only real experts are around the Mactel community... :-) > > About two weeks ago, I have set up an Intel Mac mini as a replacement of > our old server. The operating system is Ubuntu 6.06, currently running a > the standard Ubuntu 2.6.15-28-686 kernel (SMP). I chose Ubuntu mostly > because I like the easy maintenance (which, with the long-term-support > for 6.06 makes it an ideal server OS IMO), and because I'm familiar with > Ubuntu. > > Installation went smoothly, and everything is running perfectly well... > as long as the machine has some work to do. It seems that the Mac mini, > after some period of inactivity, goes to sleep and doesn't properly wake > up anymore. It does not react to network activity anymore, which is of > course fatal for a server. Only a physical key press seems to wake the > system up again. Afterwards, network latency is horrible (ping times of > around 5 seconds) for a minute or two, after which the system > "stabilizes" and works as normal -- until it decides to sleep again... :-( > > I have tried playing around with different kernel options (noacpi, > noapic, apm=off and the like), but in fact they seem to not fix the > problem (it still goes to sleep), but to even aggravate it, because the > system then becomes terribly slow and throws strange error messages at me. > > I have also tried to disable powernowd, and to fiddle around with > /proc/acpi/wakeup, which currently looks like this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/acpi/wakeup > Device Sleep state Status > PXS1 4 enabled > PXS2 4 enabled > USB1 3 enabled > USB2 3 enabled > USB3 3 enabled > USB4 3 enabled > USB7 3 enabled > > All of this, unfortunately, did not help with the problem. I'm really > lost now and begging for help... If anybody has any clue or hint, what > could cause this behavior and how to fix it, please please help! > > Basically, a solution that would help me a lot would simply be a method > to prevent the system from entering anything but a "100% on" state. I'm > actually not really sure whether this has anything to do with ACPI at > all, but I strongly believe so. > > Of course, the ideal solution would be a fully functional machine which > actually makes use of the powersaving features it provides, but the "do > not sleep at all" method would be sufficient for the time being to > guarantee that the server is responsive at all times... > > Any thoughts are highly appreciated... Of course, I'll provide any other > necessary information that could be helpful for troubleshooting. > > Thanks a lot in advance, > best regards, > > Chris > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
