Control: severity -1 important Control: tag -1 normal On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 01:31 +0100, Stefan Nagy wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.6.9-1~experimental.1 > Severity: grave > Justification: causes non-serious data loss > > Dear Maintainer, > > when my notebook's battery runs out (reaches a critical state), GNOME isn't > able to send it into hibernation. GNOME reports low as well as critical > battery > level but fails to send my notebook into hibernation before it suddenly shuts > down – I already lost some work because of this. I reported this bug against > gnome-settings-daemon some months ago, see bug #684186. Since this seems to be > a hardware specific issue I'm filing a kernel bug now. > > Sending my notebook into hibernation manually works without any problems. > linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 (3.2.32-1) is also affected by this bug. I also > tried > various upstream kernel versions with no luck. > > Please tell me if you need more information.
You confirmed that hibernation works and that GNOME is properly
detecting the low battery level, so I don't see how this is a kernel
bug. The decision to hibernate is a matter of userland policy, so I
think you were right with #684186.
Ben.
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