Ubuntu
kpowersave package

kpowersave won't suspend to disk but powersave --suspend-to-disk works

Bug #90368 reported by Gabriel Ambuehl
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kpowersave (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: kpowersave

When I hit suspend to disk in kpowersave, I get
Could not umount external media before suspend/standby.
(Reason: Could not call DCOP interface to umount external media.)
Would you like to continue suspend/standby anyway?
(Warning: Continue suspend can cause data loss!)
since the update to 0.7.2.

It then goes black for a few seconds and locks the screen, but doesn't suspend.

Running powersave --suspend-to-disk works just fine though.

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Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson) wrote :

I get the same error message when trying to suspend to RAM. Choosing "Suspend" from the logout menu works perfectly, however.

This only started happening, oh, maybe a week or three ago (on Feisty).

Changed in kpowersave:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Luka Renko (lure) wrote :

This should be fixed with 0.7.2-1ubuntu1.

Changed in kpowersave:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson) wrote :

I once checked the "please don't show me this message again" box... can I undo this (so as to see if the message still comes up)?

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Rohan Dhruva (rohandhruva) wrote :

KUbuntu method of solving this is strange - just disabling unmount of external media. How can that help ? The warning clearly says "It can cause data loss", and it does, if for example, I hibernate (suspend to disk) and mount that partition from other distro, and the journal is replayed, it will cause data loss.

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