Bug 427065 - Show an explanation when hibernating / suspending fails
Summary: Show an explanation when hibernating / suspending fails
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-power-manager
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-12-30 20:06 UTC by Till Maas
Modified: 2009-11-18 14:19 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-11-18 14:19:07 UTC
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Description Till Maas 2007-12-30 20:06:38 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #357521 +++

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.
  
Actual results:

In step 5, you eventually get kicked back to the Gnome desktop, with no further
explanation of any kind.

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.

Additional info:

1. There should be some kind of feedback to the user, when pm-hibernate fails.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 15:13:11 UTC
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 02:58:27 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
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Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2008-08-06 06:15:23 UTC
Does pm-utils now catch this?

Comment 4 Till Maas 2008-08-08 10:24:25 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Does pm-utils now catch this?

What should pm-utils do here? I do not think that this issue can be resolved by changing pm-utils somehow.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 02:04:37 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 6 Richard Hughes 2009-08-20 11:40:33 UTC
We should get much better reports from rawhide -- can you confirm the failure message is okay now?

Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 08:00:03 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 8 Richard Hughes 2009-11-18 14:19:07 UTC
commit d494537514627a64bf997126dc3f03fe64bb9390
Author: Richard Hughes <richard>
Date:   Wed Nov 18 14:18:02 2009 +0000

    Show the sleep failure as a modal dialog box. Fixes rh#427065


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