reassign 452909 pm-utils
thanks
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:25:14PM +0100, GALLIEN Matthieu wrote:
> Le lundi 26 novembre 2007, Sjoerd Simons a écrit :
> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 01:49:49AM +0100, Matthieu Gallien wrote:
> > > Package: hal
> > > Version: 0.5.10-2
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > Due to the last upload of hal, there is regression in the support of pmu.
> > > None of them seems complicated to fix as I was able to find workarounds
> > > without prior knowledge of hal and dbus stuff..
> > >
> > > The symptom was that I was no longer able to suspend to ram using
> > > kpowersave. I used qdbusviewer to interacts with hald and also executed
> > > hals in a console. I found that
> > > /usr/lib/hal/hal-system-power-pm-is-supported reports to hal that my
> > > computer cannot suspend to ram. This is wrong. Since the regression, I
> > > was able to suspend my computer using:
> > > /usr/lib/hal/hal-system-power-pmu sleep
> >
> > Hmm, do we still ship hal-system-power-pmu, we shouldn't. But that's
> > another bug :)
>
> Yes you still ship hal-system-power-pmu and I use it currently.
Don't assume it will still be availble on the next upload :)
> >
> > > I believe that /usr/lib/hal/hal-system-power-pm-is-supported should be
> > > fixed to at least say yes when an hal helper is able to do the job.
> > > Second problem, /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux
> > > is not able to suspend to ram my computer. There the problem is that hal
> > > apparently only supports pm-utils. Again, adding those some lines solved
> > > the problem:
> >
> > What needs to be fixed is pm-utils to properly support suspend on PMU
> > machines. As soon as this is fixed, hal will automagically start working
> > again.
>
> Yeah why not.
> It is not my package and I have no right to say what is the best.
> I know that currently hal no longer support pmu and I found a workaround
> before pm-utils is fixed. This is why I submitted this bug report. There is
> people who have lost functionnality.
> >
> > I'd rather spend my time fixing pm-utils then adding workarounds in hal to
> > hid problems :) I just haven't come around to actually fixing pm-utils yet.
>
> Do I need to submit a bug report ?
Nope, i'm reassigning this bug to pm-utils. I build and upload uswsusp on
powerpc, so now all that's left is for pm-utils to correctly show suspend is
supported on PMU machines.. Which can be as simple as checking if /dev/pmu
exists.
Sjoerd
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