On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:30:41AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Package: hal > Version: 0.5.8-1 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > On power/ibook systems that have hibernate installed, hibernate to ram > will not work properly because it tries to use something like > > echo -n mem > /sys/power/state > > which is broken. I've submitted a kernel patch to stop mem and standby > from showing up in /sys/power/state and am running that patch, which > means that I was just lucky that it didn't kill my system a few minutes > ago! > > Now, the scripts in other places work around this by > disallowing /sys/power/state for pmu based systems because those allow > crashing the system through that file. > > In any case, the point here is that this check should also be applied to > the new patch in order to not break pmu based systems that happen to > have hibernate installed.
Actually i already patched hal to have power_management.can_suspend_to_disk = false on pmu systems. But your right, programs can still call that hal interface (although i hoped no actually do). I'll try to make the patch more watertight for the next package :) Sjoerd -- If it wasn't for Newton, we wouldn't have to eat bruised apples. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
