iBook does not sleep after recent yum update...

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Scott:

On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 08:53  AM, Scott Strungis wrote:
> Suddenly my iBook 800 has stopped sleeping when I close the lid. This 
> started right after a yum update I did yesterday. This is a problem 
> for me because I am always on the move at work and cannot really wait 
> for a reboot everytime I change locations.

This happened to me last week, Here's how I solved the problem:

There are two services that are responsible for PowerBook power 
management issues, "pbbuttonsd" and "pmud." Here's how to determine 
whether pmud is running:

[clint]$ su -
Password:
[root]# service pmud status
pmud is stopped

Aha -- pmud was not working for me. Note the hyphen ("-") after the su 
command to enter root privileges. This is essential, though I have no 
idea how it changes "su." Without the "-," the bash shell complains 
that the "service" command is not found.

The service command can come to the rescue if pmud is not running. 
Here's how:

[root]# service pmud start
Starting pmud daemon:      [OK]
[root]# service pmud status
pmud (pid 1084) is running. . .

Use the same service command to check on the status of pbbuttonsd:

[root]# service pbbuttonsd status
pbbuttonsd (pid 567) is running. . .

Good luck!

Best wishes,
Clint

-- 
Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT 
net>