[Pm-utils] [gpm] gnome-power-manger-2.26.0 suspend and hibernate

[Robby Workman]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:01:25 -0500
Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 19:03 +0000, Chris Vine wrote:
> > All is now revealed.
> > 
> > I had made the mistake of thinking that /var/log/pm-suspend only
> > contains what was also sent to stdout/stderr.  It doesn't, it
> > reports also on how the hooks behave.
> 
> Handy, that.  :)
> 
> > /var/log/pm-suspend indicates that the problem was that the 55wicd
> > hook was hanging on thawing.  I think this is a re-emergence of the
> > fact that the reloading of the wireless modules also tries to bring
> > up the wireless interface via udev and wicd could not handle two
> > such requests at the same time.  udev always has to get there first
> > because the modules have to be loaded before any calls are made to
> > wicd.
> 
> In that case, would you mind trying the following patch on 75modules
> with an unmodified 55wicd?
> 
> BEGIN PATCH
> diff --git a/sleep.d/75modules b/sleep.d/75modules
> index 3f292e4..ed8bbcf 100755
> --- a/sleep.d/75modules
> +++ b/sleep.d/75modules
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ suspend_modules()
>  resume_modules()
>  {
>         modreload
> +       udevadm settle --timeout=5
>  }
>  
>  case "$1" in
> END PATCH
> 
> > Simply commenting out the attempt to bring back the wireless
> > interface in 55wicd when thawing/resuming solves the problem.  The
> > reloading of the wireless modules will bring up the interface by
> > itself (via udev).
> 
> The above patch should wait up to 5 seconds for udev to settle after
> reloading modules.  Can you see if that allows an unmodified 55wicd to
> work properly?


If it turns out that 55wicd needs to be modified, please CC me so that
I don't miss it; that area of wicd is pretty much my baby.

-RW
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