Control: severity -1 important On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 03:16:05PM +0200, Bruno Kohlberg wrote: > Hi, I am not sure how to register or log in on > https://bugs.debian.org/ -- so here is my email with the text which you > are welcome to publish on the website (or tell me how I can do this).
To comment on a bug, you mail [email protected], like you just did. > Package: pm-utils > Version: 1.4.1-17 > Severity: critical > > On trying to install pm-utils on a pretty new system without many > changes (firmware-9.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso with kernel 4.9.0-3) on an ASUS > laptop, Synaptic gives the following message: > > "»critical Fehler von pm-utils (? 1.4.1-17) <Ausstehend> > b1 - #863679 - /usr/sbin/pm-powersave: repeatedly runs until > /var/log/pm-powersave.log fills up disk" The tool you're using is warning you about high-severity bugs someone reported. However, this one seems to be spurious -- no one else has managed to reproduce it, and the original reporter hasn't responded either. Thus, I've just downgraded the report; I'll ping the reporter to see if he has any new information. > As a novice, I rather would not like to downgrade systemd or the > kernel -- as suggested -- since the system does not run troublefree yet > (there are still a lot of hardware issues and I don't want to open > another can of worms). About every user of Debian who runs a GUI system has pm-utils installed, and most also have systemd (which is somewhat controversial, but not let's go into that here) -- thus it's very likely the failure on the original reporter's machine was unique. Thus, I'd say you should be safe. Of course, if you happen to see this particular symptom (/var/log/pm-powersave.log growing without bounds) it'd be nice if you could tell us so. > You further write that "on systemd machines, keeping pm-utils is kind of > pointless" -- does this mean that I can do without it or should I > install an alternative? Suspend and hibernate do not work yet on the > machine ... systemd can trigger suspend and hibernate by itself, and most GUIs know how to do this via systemd. pm-utils are useful for scripting, but it doesn't sound like you have this particular need. As for suspend and hibernate not working on your machine, this is a notorious pile of issues, with which I'm not in a position to really help you. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ I've read an article about how lively happy music boosts ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ productivity. You can read it, too, you just need the ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ right music while doing so. I recommend Skepticism ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ (funeral doom metal).
