Screen blanks on lid close, never comes back

[Nicolas Calderon]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 18 January 2011 18:28, Nicolas Calderon
> <nicolas.calderon.asselin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On 18 January 2011 03:02, Nicolas Calderon
>>> <nicolas.calderon.asselin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> With the option "Blank screen" for the "When laptop lid is closed"
>>>> setting in "Power Management Preferences": I close the lid, I reopen
>>>> it, the screen stays blank, and the only way I can get it to work
>>>> again is by restarting the laptop.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you select Put display to sleep when inactive, in Power Management
>>> does it blank and recover ok then?
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
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>>
>> Yes, Put display to sleep when inactive does blank and recover the
>> screen correctly.
>>
>> As a side note, I noticed in the battery power menu that there was a
>> Do Nothing option on When laptop lid is closed. It did not do nothing,
>> and caused the same issue I observed as Blank screen on AC (the
>> problem I described before).
>
> Have you had a look in the logs to see if anything is there (System >
> Administration > Log File Viewer)
>
> Do you get a terminal window if you enter Ctrl Alt F1  (Ctrl Alt F7
> should take you back).  If you do then at least you can login and
> restart with
> sudo shutdown -h now
>
> Has anyone else any ideas?   Otherwise I think you may have to submit a bug.
>
> Colin
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I will look at those logs when I get home. I did look at some logs
though. My Xorg log was posted in my orignial message.

Switching to a tty ( Ctrl Alt F1) does not fix the issue. Sysreq
(alt-sysreq-k) either. If I want to restart softly, I just ssh and
sudo shutdown -r now.