[indiana-discuss] 2008.11 build 100a test ISO

[Randy Fishel]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, andrew wrote:

> > > Confirmed: I've implemented the workaround is
> > comment 10 of that bug 
> > > and removed the line 'S3-support enable' form
> > /etc/power.conf . I 
> > > have a 'shutdown' option in gnome, and I also have
> > the 'suspend' 
> > > option as expected due to my machine being in the
> > whitelist 
> > > (/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/ppm.conf).
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > 
> > > Andrew.
> > 
> > I find this interesting, so to be clear, if there
> >  is 'S3-support 
> > nable' in power.conf, there is no "Shutdown" option,
> > but if it is not 
> > there, then there is a "Shutdown" option?
> > 
> > What about if power.conf contains 'S3-support
> >  default'? 
> > Does anything change if HAL is restarted: 'svcadm
> >  restart hal'?
> > 
> > 	---- Randy
> 
> NO - read the bug report. There is a bug in recent Nevada builds 
> that causes gnome to not display a shutdown option some of the time 
> due to a race condition when the user logs in. The solution, in 
> comment 10 of the bug report, is to stop gdm from daemonising. The 
> fact that I added the line to power.conf and I got the shutdown 
> option back was just a coincidence - sometimes the option appears, 
> sometimes it doesn't.

  I had read the bug report (at least loosly), but the previous 
comment still described the S3-support keyword in power.conf, which 
appears to be irrelevant.  Though the 'S3-support default' request is 
probably also irrelevant, I think the request to restart HALL when the 
problem exists is not, and would be an important part of arriving at a 
permanent solution (GDM *should* be using HAL).

> 
> The only reason you would need to add 'S3-support enable' to 
> /etc/power.conf is if your computer is not in the whitelist of 
> machines which are known to work correctly with suspend to RAM on 
> Nevada. In this case you won't have the option to suspend to disk - 
> unless you add this line to power.conf .

  I am well aware of what the S3-support keyword does, including using 
the 'default' option, which is why I suggested it vs, removing the 
keyword entirely (and mostly why I was inquiring about the relevance 
of the keyword in these messages - though there isn't yet an 
'S4-support' keyword ;^) ).

  Cheers!

	---- Randy

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Andrew.
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