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and subject line closing ancient gnome-power-manager bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #535704,
regarding gnome-power-manager: wakes up the harddrive with laptop mode turned
on, seems to use fsync on log file
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535704: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535704
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Package: gnome-power-manager
Version: 2.24.4-3
Severity: normal
When running on battery power I want to keep disk activity to a minimum,
but g-p-m is one of those programs that regularly wakes up the hard disk
when writing the log file.
Simple writing would be cached, but it seems that g-p-m uses (f)sync to
circumvent the buffering, which is counterproductive.
Can this please be disabled, thanks
Norbert
-- Package-specific info:
Distro version: squeeze/sid
Kernel version: 2.6.30
g-p-m version: 2.24.4
HAL version: 0.5.12
System manufacturer: missing
System version: missing
System product: missing
AC adapter present: yes
Battery present: yes
Laptop panel present: no
CPU scaling present: yes
Battery Information:
battery.charge_level.current = 34720 (0x87a0) (int)
battery.charge_level.design = 59500 (0xe86c) (int)
battery.charge_level.last_full = 56830 (0xddfe) (int)
battery.charge_level.percentage = 61 (0x3d) (int)
battery.charge_level.rate = 16153 (0x3f19) (int)
battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool)
battery.model = '' (string)
battery.present = true (bool)
battery.rechargeable.is_charging = false (bool)
battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = true (bool)
battery.remaining_time = 7738 (0x1e3a) (int)
battery.reporting.current = 34720 (0x87a0) (int)
battery.reporting.design = 59500 (0xe86c) (int)
battery.reporting.last_full = 56830 (0xddfe) (int)
battery.reporting.rate = 16153 (0x3f19) (int)
battery.reporting.technology = 'Li-ion' (string)
battery.reporting.unit = 'mWh' (string)
battery.serial = '' (string)
battery.technology = 'lithium-ion' (string)
battery.type = 'primary' (string)
battery.vendor = 'Sony Corporation' (string)
battery.voltage.current = 11140 (0x2b84) (int)
battery.voltage.design = 10800 (0x2a30) (int)
battery.voltage.unit = 'mV' (string)
GNOME Power Manager Process Information:
HAL Process Information:
109 3937 0.1 0.1 36844 5548 ? Ss 17:42 0:02 /usr/sbin/hald
root 4003 0.0 0.0 15660 1240 ? S 17:42 0:00 \_ hald-runner
root 4058 0.0 0.0 28332 2056 ? S 17:42 0:00 \_ hald-ad
root 4100 0.0 0.0 28332 2032 ? S 17:42 0:00 \_ hald-ad
109 4106 0.0 0.0 32228 2004 ? S 17:42 0:00 \_ hald-ad
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers transitional-i386
APT policy: (500, 'transitional-i386'), (500, 'transitional'), (500,
'unstable'), (400, 'unstable-i386')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on:
ii consolekit 0.3.0-2 framework for defining and trackin
ii dbus-x11 1.2.14-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii gconf2 2.26.2-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii hal 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii libbonobo2-0 2.24.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libc6 2.9-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.14-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib 0.80-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgconf2-4 2.26.2-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-key 2.26.1-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.26.0-1 The GNOME library - runtime files
ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgstreamer 0.10.23-2 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.4-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnotify1 [ 0.4.5-1 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libpanel-app 2.26.2-1 library for GNOME Panel applets
ii libpango1.0- 1.24.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libunique-1. 1.0.8-1 Library for writing single instanc
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.1-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-2 X11 RandR extension library
ii notification 0.4.0-1 a daemon that displays passive pop
gnome-power-manager recommends no packages.
gnome-power-manager suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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