Enable hibernation

[Marc Deslauriers]

On 14-01-17 03:12 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:56:27PM -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
>> On 14-01-06 04:32 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
>>>> How about supporting the failure condition better? Add a dialog with
>>>> instructions/warnings? At the very least the option should be able to be
>>>> added back with a setting an adventurous user can set.
>>>
>>> I'm comfortable with the idea of this being a hidden toggle that the
>>> adventurous user can opt in to.  I don't think it should be something in the
>>> UI unless someone is going to commit to making the experience more robust. 
>>> Having a dialog pop up when you click the hibernate button - or when you
>>> close the lid expecting the machine to hibernate! - is cold comfort when the
>>> hibernation failure causes your machine to overheat in the bag, for
>>> instance.
>>
>> I believe this is already a hidden toggle, in the form of a policykit file that
>> is dropped in place by the policykit-desktop-privileges package.
> 
> Could this get documented on the wiki? I'd like to be able to point people
> to how to enable hibernation again.
> 

https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-help/power-hibernate.html

Or click "Ubuntu Help" from the session indicator and search for hibernate.

Marc.