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gnome-power-manager package

power mgmt. doesn't offer susp / hibernate

Bug #83088 reported by Christian Convey
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

I've got a laptop (HP Pavilion dv4150, part of the dv4000 line) that works reasonably well under Edgy. It hibernates and un-hibernates fine. It suspends so-so and resumes from suspension so-so.

I ran Feisty Herd 3 as a live CD on this laptop. As suggested in the release notes, I ran gnome-power-manager manually once I had the desktop up. (I actually ran it as sudo, because I figured it wouldn't cause any harm and might be necessary.)

There are two signs of badness regarding power control that I experienced:

1) When I went into Gnome's Control Panel (if that's the right term) I clicked on the icon for power management. The only options it gave me for when the lid closes were (a) do nothing or (b) shutdown. "suspend" and "hibernate" weren't presented as options.

2) When I hit the laptop's power button, the laptop didn't bring up that gnome menu that presents all the shudown options (cancel, shutdown, suspend, hibernate, etc.) It just went right on to the business of shutting the laptop down. I don't know whether or not this symptom was a consequence of my forgetting to set something up properly in the power managment dialog mentioned in issue (1).

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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote :

Which version of g-p-m do you have?

If you don't have 2.17.90-0ubuntu6, please upgrade and test again.

Thanks
Pochu

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Christian Convey (christian-convey) wrote : Re: [Bug 83088] Re: power mgmt. doesn't offer susp / hibernate

How would I know which version I have on the live CD?

Also, how could I do an update, if running only from the live CD?

On 2/3/07, Emilio Pozuelo <email address hidden> wrote:
> Which version of g-p-m do you have?
>
> If you don't have 2.17.90-0ubuntu6, please upgrade and test again.
>
> Thanks
> Pochu
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Emilio Pozuelo
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Sourcepackagename: None => gnome-power-manager
>
> --
> power mgmt. doesn't offer susp / hibernate
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/83088
>

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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote :

Hi Christian!

>How would I know which version I have on the live CD?

Just type: "dpkg -l gnome-power-manager" in a terminal.

And to update it, also in a terminal:
"sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install gnome-power-manager".

However, there is no problem in installing the system, and once in it, updating.

And there is no need in run g-p-m as root, you should run it as a normal user.

And remember that Feisty is not stable, so you can find some bugs, even critical ones.

Best regards
Pochu

P.D.: please, tell us which version of g-p-m you have.

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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote :

I'm closing this bug report, as this is a know issue which has been fixed, but feel free to reopen if you still have the problem.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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Christian Convey (christian-convey) wrote :

Hi Emilio,

I've got to disagree that this is fixed, because it showed up still when I ran the Herd 4 live CD on the same laptop. If you were right about it being fixed, the fix should have been in the Herd 4 CD (right?).

I've opened another bug on the issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/85838
I'm not sure if the bugtracking policy makes the two bug reports mutually redundant.

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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote :

If you think this is not fixed, you can just reopen it ;)

But if you do it, try to provide all the info you can.

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Christian Convey (christian-convey) wrote :

Actually, I wanted to re-open it, but I didn't see anything that lets
me explicitly control the state of a bug.

I ended up opening this bug:
https://launchpad.net/bugs/85838
but perhaps it's reasonably considered a dupe of the bug we've been
discussing? Not sure how to best represent this in Launchpad.

On 2/18/07, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden> wrote:
> If you think this is not fixed, you can just reopen it ;)
>
> But if you do it, try to provide all the info you can.
>
> --
> power mgmt. doesn't offer susp / hibernate
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/83088
>

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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote :

Hi Christian!

There is no a big problem in opening a new bug, as this is closed. But reopening this would be better, because here there is some discussion about the problem, and more info.

About how to reopen it... Click on the package name on the top of the report (gnome-power-manager) and then mark it as unconfirmed (or whatever is the state) instead of fix released (the current state).

Best regards
Emilio

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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote :

Hi Christian

Leave the other open, and concentrate your efforts there. But the next time, reopen a bug if you need to :)

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
assignee: pochu → nobody
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Christian Convey (christian-convey) wrote :

Will do, thanks.

On 2/18/07, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi Christian
>
> Leave the other open, and concentrate your efforts there. But the next
> time, reopen a bug if you need to :)
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort => (unassigned)
>
> --
> power mgmt. doesn't offer susp / hibernate
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/83088
>

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