#6702 HIGH Never A: /etc/inhibit-ebook-suspend needed to prevent suspend when giving .pdf file to ReadActivity on XO (was: what does /etc/ohm/inhibit-suspend do ?)
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Tue Jun 24 16:53:10 EDT 2008
#6702: /etc/inhibit-ebook-suspend needed to prevent suspend when giving .pdf file
to ReadActivity on XO
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Reporter: mikus | Owner: jg
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: Never Assigned
Component: distro | Version: Development build as of this date
Resolution: | Keywords:
Verified: 0 | Blocking:
Blockedby: |
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Changes (by mikus):
* priority: low => high
Comment:
G1G1 XO; Joyride manually upgraded to 2056 level.
Used Browse to put a .pdf file into Journal. Then clicked on that file's
Journal entry. ReadActivity was launched to display that file's content.
I was wondering why it spent a long time in the "Loading" screen, when I
noticed the power light blinking -- my XO had SUSPENDED.
[BTW, I have a permanently-mounted SD card. When I pushed a key and the
XO resumed, I could (from Terminal) not access the scripts I keep on that
SD card -- even though Journal showed that SD card to still be "mounted",
'ls -la' against the root directory of that SD card listed only garbage.]
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I already had 'touched' /etc/ohm/inhibit-suspend, and /etc/ohm/inhibit-
idle-suspend. Encountering the present problem answers my original
question "what does /etc/ohm/inhibit-suspend do ?" The answer -- NOTHING
!!
To me the present problem is a BLOCKING-severity defect. [Tried it again
with /etc/inhibit-ebook-sleep, and was shown the file's content without
the XO being suspended.] I would expect having to 'touch' /etc/inhibit-
ebook-sleep to be necessary if I "twist" my XO into its ebook-
configuration (folded flat, with screen out). But what surprised me was
that the XO went into suspend *merely* by me asking to see a .pdf file,
while the XO remained in its "open-laptop" configuration (screen
perpendicular to keyboard). Wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6702#comment:2>
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