I noticed that this server hasn’t been terribly available since upgrade to Ubuntu 19.04: more than once I went looking for the server and it was offline.
Now that I’m finally progressing with centralized RSyslog setup at home, I noticed that the UniFi controller server was reporting the following in logs recently:
Feb 25 22:15:38 server NetworkManager[737]: <info> [1582668938.0193] manager: sleep: sleep requested (sleeping: no enabled: yes)
Feb 25 22:15:38 server NetworkManager[737]: <info> [1582668938.0239] manager: NetworkManager state is now ASLEEP
Feb 25 22:15:38 server whoopsie[1025]: [22:15:38] offline
Feb 25 22:15:38 server gnome-shell[956]: Screen lock is locked down, not locking
Feb 25 22:15:38 server systemd[1]: Reached target Sleep.
Feb 25 22:15:38 server systemd[1]: Starting Suspend...
Feb 25 22:15:38 server kernel: [ 1235.212537] PM: suspend entry (s2idle)
Feb 25 22:15:38 server systemd-sleep[1705]: Suspending system...
So, it appears the power management has improved enough to start bringing this server to sleep every hour or so.
Since this is a recent enough version of Ubuntu, I figured there should be a way to disable power management using systemctl. Turns out, there is.
Confirm Sleep Status with systemd
IMPORTANT: I didn’t run this command on server, so this is example from another system: I’m running it on my XPS laptop with Ubuntu, just to show you expected output.
root@server:/ # sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sleep.target → /dev/null.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/suspend.target → /dev/null.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/hibernate.target → /dev/null.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/hybrid-sleep.target → /dev/null.
root@server:/etc/pm/sleep.d#
This is obviously a very simple way of disabling power management, but I like it because it’s standard and logical enough – there’s no need to edit config files or create cronjobs manually controlling sleep functionality.
The service is dead, no power management is happening and most importantly, my server has been up for 12 hours now.
greys@server:~$ systemctl status sleep.target
● sleep.target
Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit sleep.target is masked.)
Active: inactive (dead)
(re) Enabling Sleep in Ubuntu with systemctl
When the time comes and I would like to re-enable power management and sleep/hibernation, this will be the command I’ll run:
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