Bug 15338 - disable hibernate when the on-disk kernel has been upgraded to a newer version
Summary: disable hibernate when the on-disk kernel has been upgraded to a newer version
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: hal
Classification: Unclassified
Component: hald (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium enhancement
Assignee: David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail)
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Reported: 2008-04-03 06:22 UTC by Sam Morris
Modified: 2008-04-03 13:34 UTC (History)
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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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