[SOLVED] Transmission blocks sleep/suspend: workaround?

**jmjohn** · November 7th, 2008

Hey all,

When attempting to enter sleep, I get
"Request to do policy action Transmission BitTorrent Client has stopped the policy action from taking place: BitTorrent Activity"

This is really annoying. I know this is fixed in the current beta of Transmission, but it seems overkill to fix it by upgrading to a beta (that must be compiled from source). What are other folks doing about this? What's your workaround? Switch clients? Downgrade? Upgrade to beta?

thanks,
glass.dimly

**jmjohn** · November 8th, 2008

This has been fixed in the Ubuntu-provided Transmission update on 11-08-08. So, just update your systems folks, and it's fixed.

-glass.dimly

**sideaway** · April 10th, 2009

I get this with VLC, any ideas?

**bluelamp999** · May 6th, 2009

I'm also getting this with VLC.

Anybody know how to fix?

Cheers

**bluelamp999** · May 7th, 2009

Gentle *bump*

**Kareeser** · May 7th, 2009

There's a setting in the VLC options. "Inhibit the power management daemon during playback". You will have to enable all options to see it.

**bluelamp999** · May 7th, 2009

Hi Kareeser,

Thanks for the reply...

The "Inhibit the power management daemon during playback" option was enabled in my VLC settings.

I've disabled the setting, here's hoping!

Thanks again