Bug#395086: closed by maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at> (Re: Bug#395086: linux-image-2.6.18-1-686: disable suspend to disk on install)
reopen 395086
merge 395086 395089
thanks
> From: maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>
> Subject: Re: Bug#395086: linux-image-2.6.18-1-686: disable suspend to disk on install
> To: 395086-done@bugs.debian.org
> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:33:51 +0200
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i
> Message-ID: <20061024213351.GB13178@baikonur.stro.at>
>
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:41:38PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> >
> > When installing a new kernel over the currently running one, and suspend to
> > disk is enabled, the system will fail to resume with the newer kernel at
> > resuming time. It would be safer if it was impossible to suspend to disk then.
> > I guess setting some value to /sys/power/resume would do the trick.
>
> this an userspace problem.
And ? The kernel package has a check to warn the user he is installing
the same kernel as the currently running one. It could disable suspend
to disk at the same time. This *is* a kernel package problem.
> > More generally, I think there is something wrong with Linux doing
> > suspend to disk in S5 instead of S4. It has great advantages, such as
> > being able to suspend to disk an OS and booting another one, but it very
> > risky when you use filesystems opened by the suspended OS with another
> > one. Another issue is that you have to resume with the exact same kernel
> > that suspended, which is the reason of this bug, but is also a problem
> > for people having more than one kernel installed... Interaction with the
> > bootloader may be something to be worked on...
>
> feel free to submit a bug upstream or discuss that on lkml.
> that is definetly not a debian specific bug.
>
> so closing for now.
Are you closing every non-debian-specific bugs ? do you know there is an
upstream tag for non-debian-specific bugs ?
Mike
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