Bug#863679: Debian Bug report logs - #863679
Control: severity -1 important
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 03:16:05PM +0200, Bruno Kohlberg wrote:
> Hi, I am not sure how to register or log in on
> https://bugs.debian.org/ -- so here is my email with the text which you
> are welcome to publish on the website (or tell me how I can do this).
To comment on a bug, you mail 863679@bugs.debian.org, like you just did.
> Package: pm-utils
> Version: 1.4.1-17
> Severity: critical
>
> On trying to install pm-utils on a pretty new system without many
> changes (firmware-9.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso with kernel 4.9.0-3) on an ASUS
> laptop, Synaptic gives the following message:
>
> "»critical Fehler von pm-utils (? 1.4.1-17) <Ausstehend>
> b1 - #863679 - /usr/sbin/pm-powersave: repeatedly runs until
> /var/log/pm-powersave.log fills up disk"
The tool you're using is warning you about high-severity bugs someone
reported. However, this one seems to be spurious -- no one else has managed
to reproduce it, and the original reporter hasn't responded either. Thus,
I've just downgraded the report; I'll ping the reporter to see if he has
any new information.
> As a novice, I rather would not like to downgrade systemd or the
> kernel -- as suggested -- since the system does not run troublefree yet
> (there are still a lot of hardware issues and I don't want to open
> another can of worms).
About every user of Debian who runs a GUI system has pm-utils installed, and
most also have systemd (which is somewhat controversial, but not let's go
into that here) -- thus it's very likely the failure on the original
reporter's machine was unique. Thus, I'd say you should be safe.
Of course, if you happen to see this particular symptom
(/var/log/pm-powersave.log growing without bounds) it'd be nice if you could
tell us so.
> You further write that "on systemd machines, keeping pm-utils is kind of
> pointless" -- does this mean that I can do without it or should I
> install an alternative? Suspend and hibernate do not work yet on the
> machine ...
systemd can trigger suspend and hibernate by itself, and most GUIs know how
to do this via systemd. pm-utils are useful for scripting, but it doesn't
sound like you have this particular need.
As for suspend and hibernate not working on your machine, this is a
notorious pile of issues, with which I'm not in a position to really help
you.
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