Description of problem: Running pm-hibernate runs successfully except it fails to power off the machine when it's finished writing to disk. It manages to poweroff most of my devices (loud pop from speakers, HD spins down and fans turn off) but there is still a blinking cursor on my screen. Turning the machine back on, resumes as expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pm-utils-0.99.4-6.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run pm-hibernate 2. 3. Actual results: Shows blank screen with flashing cursor. Lots of disk activity. Loud pop from speakers, then HD, fans spin down/turn off .... Need to manually power off Expected results: .... Machine should automatically power off Additional info:
Using "shutdown" instead of "platform" as the text echo'd into /sys/power/disk in /usr/lib/pm-utils/functions solves my problem. Perhaps this should be a configurable item.
Can you please paste the output of: lshal | egrep "(system.hardware.(product|vendor|version)|smbios.bios.version)"
Hey Simon, can you please provide the output of lshal | egrep "(system.hardware.(product|vendor|version)|smbios.bios.version)" The hal developers decided, that this bug should be fixed within the kernel, i.e. making the use of platform work, so you do not need to use shutdown. But for this it is needed, that you describe which notebook you are using.
Aditionally it will probably be possible to configure pm-utils to use shutdown via a config variable.
My system is appears to be working with the platform method now. An update must have resolved this. The requested details are below if still useful. smbios.bios.version = 'A08' (string) system.hardware.product = 'Inspiron 8500' (string) system.hardware.vendor = 'Dell Computer Corporation' (string)