Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 357521
restore default grub configuration when pm-hibernate fails
Last modified: 2015-03-04 20:19:26 EST
Description of problem: When, for some reason, hibernate fails, there are several partial failures to rollback and revert a normal system environment. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Take a laptop with at least 1GB of RAM, 2GB is better. 2. Install Fedora, a default Gnome desktop configuration, except manually partition the hard drive to include a small swap partition, no more than 512MB. Make sure to use a default grub configuration that uses a 10 second boot prompt timeout. 3. Boot into the Gnome desktop. Open up a bunch of applications, load some large documents into openoffice.org, run firefox and open something on slashdot at comment level -1, etc..., use up all the RAM, far more than can be suspended to swap. 4. Invoke Shut Down -> Hibernate. 5. The hibernate process starts running, then aborts, returning you to your Gnome desktop. 6. Invoke Shut Down -> Shut Down. 7. Wait for the system to come down and for the laptop to shut off. 8. Power up the laptop again, and begin booting. Actual results: In step 5, you eventually get kicked back to the Gnome desktop, with no further explanation of any kind. In step 8, Grub begins booting Linux immediately, without its customary 10 second timeout Expected results: In step 5, I would expect to see at least have some kind of a generic error dialog pop up and complain about a hibernation failure. pm-hibernate should not just fail and have you go back to the Gnome desktop with no explanation whatsoever. In step 8, I would expect to come up with a default Grub configuration, with the default 10 second timeout. Additional info: 1. There should be some kind of feedback to the user, when pm-hibernate fails. 2. When pm-hibernate fails, the default grub configuration should be restored.
The first issue (missing warning in case of a failed hibernate) needs to be handled in gnome-power-manager, therefore I cloned this bug: #427065 This bug is now only about: When pm-hibernate fails, the default grub configuration should be restored.
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