On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 20:27 +0000, Chris Coulson wrote: > hyperair - gnome-power-manager doesn't invoke pm-is-supported. g-p-m > gets the power capabilities over HAL, which gets them from pm-utils. HAL > only checks the capabilities when it starts I think. > Whoops. Forgot about HAL. > Thinking about it, I'm not sure this is such a good idea. The used RAM > is compressed before being written to swap when you hibernate, so I > think it is difficult to predict exactly how much disk space is required > for hibernation. I wouldn't want my machine to suddenly decide to > disable hibernate on the off-chance that the image might not fit on > disk. I would rather it tried to hibernate, and then failed gracefully > if there was not enough disk space to hibernate. In this situation, the > user should then be presented with a message telling them why hibernate > failed (which doesn't happen currently, and there is already a bug > report for that somewhere). I'm not sure if pm-utils' kernel method does compression, but I'm very sure that uswsusp's s2disk does it. Either way, you're right. In that case, could you locate the bug and mark this bug as a duplicate of the said bug? > > And I think that it would be even more confusing to users if they find > that hibernate keeps disappearing and reappearing in their session > dialog or fast user switch applet of whatever they use, for seemingly no > apparent reason. Yeah, putting it that way certainly brings things into perspective.
-- Chow Loong Jin -- hibernate included in shutdown menu, even if it can't work. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223770 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
