[Bug 948186] [NEW] System suspends upon closing the lid of a laptop using live CD

[Roberto Nanga Martinez]

Public bug reported:

Ubuntu 11.10
Gparted 0.8.1-1ubuntu4

I think that gparted should change the setting on closing the lid of a laptop from "suspend" to "do nothing", or inhibit suspend completely while the program is running. Either only in live CD or both live CD and plain installed Ubuntu. At least show a warning to not close the lid if the setting is set to suspend the same way it can show a warning to connect to a power source.
It makes no sense to keep this setting as "suspend" when this could interrupt disk partitioning tasks. It also affects you if you use "gparted" after choosing "try ubuntu" but before choosing "install ubuntu".

This happened to me when the partitioning process was in progress. A
friend came by to invite me to have lunch together and closed the lid of
my laptop because he didn't think I was doing anything important (I was
lying back in my chair while the partitioning/installation progressed).
Needless to say NTFS got screwed and by consequence so did my windows
partition.

** Affects: gparted (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: cd closing inhibit interrupt laptop lid live notebook partitioning suspend try ubuntu

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Title:
  System suspends upon closing the lid of a laptop using live CD

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 11.10
  Gparted 0.8.1-1ubuntu4

  I think that gparted should change the setting on closing the lid of a laptop from "suspend" to "do nothing", or inhibit suspend completely while the program is running. Either only in live CD or both live CD and plain installed Ubuntu. At least show a warning to not close the lid if the setting is set to suspend the same way it can show a warning to connect to a power source.
  It makes no sense to keep this setting as "suspend" when this could interrupt disk partitioning tasks. It also affects you if you use "gparted" after choosing "try ubuntu" but before choosing "install ubuntu".

  This happened to me when the partitioning process was in progress. A
  friend came by to invite me to have lunch together and closed the lid
  of my laptop because he didn't think I was doing anything important (I
  was lying back in my chair while the partitioning/installation
  progressed). Needless to say NTFS got screwed and by consequence so
  did my windows partition.

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