Created attachment 115613 [details] two instances of powerdevil SUMMARY After I start up my Plasma5 system (Neon user edition), half of the time powerdevil doesn't start with the system. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Start up Plasma5 2. Try system to go into suspension 3. OBSERVED RESULT System can't suspend in half of the cases EXPECTED RESULT System can suspend if it is necessary SOFTWARE VERSIONS (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.13, 5.14 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.50.0 Qt Version: 5.11 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I did a little research... - I found out that the reason that powerdevil should start is that there is a desktop file that points to it in the folder /etc/xdg/autostart. There is indeed. In this desktop file I read: Exec=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/org_kde_powerdevil. If I execute this binary from the terminal, powerdevil ALWAYS starts up. So that seems to be correct. Only at system startup it doesn't always, - It doesn't matter if I run powerdevil from a terminal with or without sudo. Both works fine, (attachement) - I find it typical that IF powerdevil starts up with the system the way it should, that according to systemmonitor, I am the owner of the process. I would expect root would be because it started up from /etc/xdg/autostart and not from ~/.config/autostart (e.g.). I don't know what this means but these are my observations
one more observation: suppose powerdevil doesn't run after startup of the system. In that situation I can also always get it running by logging out- and in again. This always works.
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