Bug 15338

Summary:	disable hibernate when the on-disk kernel has been upgraded to a newer version
Product:	hal	Reporter:	Sam Morris <sam>
Component:	hald	Assignee:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Sam Morris 2008-04-03 06:22:17 UTC

[ forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/457515 ]

> Yesterday I upgraded my kernel and stupidly proceeded to hibernate as I
> was running out of power. This resulted in the new kernel being unable
> to load the s2disk images and them being lost. It would be nice if the
> gnome-panel could detect this situation (kernel upgraded without
> rebooting) and either prevent me from hibernating by disabling the
> hibernate button or by popping up an error dialog explaining the
> situation.

We think HAL should disable suspend/hibernation if it notices that the kernel image has been modified.

Comment 1 Danny Kukawka 2008-04-03 13:34:55 UTC

No, since HAL depends on pm-utils, this is the job of pm-utils.

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