Re: [gpm] Is g-p-m (or pm-suspend) supposed to work on a desktop PC?

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 11:20 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Now, you say, "show us the messages file", which sounds great in
> theory, except that the disk is remounted read only and so the
> messages file does not collect anything that appears.  Observe there
> is nothing between the suspend and the eventual "power button
> restart".

Hmm. ro disk means no logfile :-(

> Before I upgraded the bios, I could read the dmesg output after
> resuming and it said that the journal had aborted and so the drive was
> remounted as read only.  THe messages I got were just the same ones
> that are reported in this bug report on redhat:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181474. In that
> one, the author shows a log like:

Have you tried just echoing mem into /sys/power/state, rather than using
pm-suspend? Not that I think it will do anything that different. I think
we need a kernel guy to give us a hand here.

> Also, it is important that I learn how to remove the "suspend" option
> from the system menu.  I can't have users accidentally hanging the
> computer when they try to log out.

That's the easy bit. Fire up gconf-editor and
goto /apps/gnome-power-manager/ and then untick the can_suspend box.
This removes the option from g-p-m's drop down menu and also the logout
box.

> Thanks for your help.

np.

Richard.