Enable hibernation

[Kees Cook]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 03:17:10PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Kees Cook <kees at ubuntu.com> 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.
> >
> > -Kees
> >
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, Kees, but isn't this already documented on
> the official documentation site?
> https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/ubuntu-help/power-hibernate.html
> (replace 13.10 with 12.04 or others and it shows the documentation for
> that release)

Ah-ha, perfect! Thanks :)

-Kees

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Kees Cook