While playing a YouTube video in Firefox, powerdevil keeps excessively logging the following output. Note that I've cut it down to just a fraction of a second of log messages, but this keeps going on as long as the video is playing. The power inhibition seems to work fine, but the logging alone seems to slow down the system. === Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: Releasing inhibition with cookie 1695 Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: It was only scheduled for inhibition but not enforced yet, just discarding it Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: Scheduling inhibition from ":1.16" "firefox" with cookie 1696 and reason "audio-playing" Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: Releasing inhibition with cookie 1696 Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: It was only scheduled for inhibition but not enforced yet, just discarding it Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: Scheduling inhibition from ":1.16" "firefox" with cookie 1697 and reason "audio-playing" Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: Releasing inhibition with cookie 1697 Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: It was only scheduled for inhibition but not enforced yet, just discarding it Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: Scheduling inhibition from ":1.16" "firefox" with cookie 1698 and reason "audio-playing" Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: Enforcing inhibition from ":1.16" "firefox" with cookie 1685 and reason "audio-playing" Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: By the time we wanted to enforce the inhibition it was already gone; discarding it Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: Enforcing inhibition from ":1.16" "firefox" with cookie 1686 and reason "audio-playing" Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: By the time we wanted to enforce the inhibition it was already gone; discarding it Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: Enforcing inhibition from ":1.16" "firefox" with cookie 1687 and reason "audio-playing" Mar 19 00:44:40 bender org_kde_powerdevil[725]: powerdevil: By the time we wanted to enforce the inhibition it was already gone; discarding it
This looks like a Firefox bug to me, it shouldn't constantly request an inhibition but only when the video starts and then when it stops/pauses. Please report this issue to them.
Will do, out of curiosity: what does "can't contact ck" mean?