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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Ben Hutchings
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