are you sure it is gnome shutting it down and not some power saving device ?
sorry if I am stating the obvious
2009/10/19 Leo <linux@???>
> Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> >
> > I don't know of a nice elegant way, I suspect you'll need to have a
> > program registed with the gnome-session somehow so that instead of it
> > saay "do you want to save?" it can cancel the shutdown.
> >
> Thanks for that, I'll see what google can tell me about gnome-sessions.
>
> > As long as the recording isn't within the next few mins you could set
> > the computer to wake up 5-15mins beforehand. I thought I'd tried this
> > (unsuccessfully) by poking /proc/acpi/... but can't see how ATM.
> > "nvram-wakeup" package might be handy.
> >
> Unfortunately the problem is generally that I shutdown while it's
> recording. However I have set my computer to wake itself up for
> recording when I'm not around (from a complete switch off).I believe
> current kernels no longer use /proc/acpi, or at least it stopped working
> for me somewhere between ubuntu 7.10 and 9.04. I now have to use
> /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm. I found out how to use it from [1].
>
> Thanks,
> Leo
>
> [1]
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup#Using_.2Fsys.2Fclass.2Frtc.2Frtc0.2Fwakealarm
>
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