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Re: Debian 7 Update 7.8: Regression regarding gnome and lid close action on notebooks?



Steve,

On 15-01-16 01:10:32, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 01:43:55AM +0100, georg@riseup.net wrote:
> >I'm not really sure if my assumptions are true, because checking the
> >updated package lists in the recently announced didn't reveal any gnome
> >packages.
> >
> >However, a friend of mine is encoutering the following problem since
> >some days; I think, it started after I installed the updates get the
> >system to 7.8.
> >
> >She's using gnome with fallback-session. Normally, if she closed the
> >lid of her notebook, the system was going to suspend, after reopening
> >the lid the system would come back.
> >
> >Now the following occurs: After closing the lid it seems, that the
> >system shuts down or is going into hibernate, because after opening the
> >lid again the notebook does what seems a cold boot, starting grub etc.
> >Hibernate can't work, because the disk is fully encrypted, only /boot is
> >available on a plain partition.
> >
> >In gnome-tweak-tool the action for closing the lid is set to "Suspend".
> >
> >Any idea what's going wrong here? 
> >Any idea how to debug this further or whom to ask?
> 
> You've most likely been bitten by http://bugs.debian.org/774436 I'm
> afraid - a kernel bug that crept into the 7.8 release. Fixed packages
> are already available for download.

Thanks for your hint, you're totally right, it's fixed now. (Didn't
thought of the kernel being the problem...)
Is / will this update be announced somewhere? Up until now there wasn't
anything posted to d-s-a@ for example.

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