#4824 HIGH 8.2.0 (: Should shutdown gracefully on low battery

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#4824: Should shutdown gracefully on low battery
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   Reporter:  cjb                  |       Owner:  cjb                 
       Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                 
   Priority:  high                 |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
  Component:  power manager (OHM)  |     Version:                      
 Resolution:                       |    Keywords:  power               
Next_action:  never set            |    Verified:  0                   
  Blockedby:                       |    Blocking:                      
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Comment(by pgf):

 if the user is trying to "get a bit more done" and the system crashes,
 that's treating them far worse than performing a clean shutdown.
 similarly with your concern about messing up audio tasks -- the task is
 going to be "messed up" regardless.

 while i agree that the optimum case would be a harmless power yank, i
 think we can all agree that we're pretty far from having that -- it goes
 against the grain of every caching and buffering technique that might help
 performance.  the filesystem and the applications both want an indication
 that they should do some house-cleaning -- note the recent ECO to the
 firmware that was required partially because of this behavior.

 maybe i could agree with forcibly suspending the laptop (instead of a
 shutdown), as long as there's a sync beforehand (is there a sync before
 suspend?)  warnings, of course, are a given.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4824#comment:9>
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