#9668 NORM 1.5-F11: suspend from gnome fails

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#9668: suspend from gnome fails
---------------------------------+------------------------------------------
           Reporter:  pgf        |       Owner:  cjb                              
               Type:  defect     |      Status:  new                              
           Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:  1.5-F11                          
          Component:  distro     |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:             |    Keywords:                                   
        Next_action:  reproduce  |    Verified:  0                                
Deployment_affected:             |   Blockedby:                                   
           Blocking:             |  
---------------------------------+------------------------------------------
Changes (by cjb):

 * cc: dsd (added)


Old description:

> run "Suspend" from either the System-->Shutdown menu in gnome, or the
> popup that comes from pushing the power button.
>
> the screen will blank, but the system will not sleep.
>
> running "top" on serial console shows process "vbetool" consuming all
> available cpu.

New description:

 run "Suspend" from either the System-->Shutdown menu in gnome, or the
 popup that comes from pushing the power button.

 the screen will blank, but the system will not sleep.

 running "top" on serial console shows process "vbetool" consuming all
 available cpu.

--

Comment:

 I don't think we should use pm-suspend, because it's going to run the
 myriad shell script and HAL callouts that a normal machine uses -- as
 we're seeing, they're causing a hang now, and even if they don't hang I
 think they're going to do things like switch VT away from X and add to
 suspend-time, which we don't want.

 If we can't persuade gnome-power-manager to do a direct echo mem >
 /sys/power/state, I think we should not have it executing a suspend at
 all.

-- 
Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9668#comment:3>
One Laptop Per Child <http://laptop.org/>
OLPC bug tracking system