hibernation reliability

[Lukas Sabota]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:16 +0200, Eric Feliksik wrote:
> I have the impression that hibernation is prone to failure***. This 
> means a user expects to find his session unharmed, but instead 
> everything is gone. This is *bad*, especially for a _Dapper_ release.
> 
> So I have two questions/issues:
> 1) What is the status of hibernation reliability, and do we recognize a 
> problem? Can hibernation be guaranteed to work in Dapper?
> 2) If not all systems will reliably hibernate given Dapper's time 
> constraints, is it then technically possible to detect this issue? Can 
> this be implemented in short time? At least I think it would be good if 
> the logout-dialog could base the availability of the hibernate option on 
> the gconf-key /apps/gnome-power-manager/can_hibernate (if I understand 
> it's purpose correctly). (Manu: that's why I felt free to CC you)
> 
> Welcoming your thoughts,
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
> *** Until recently my system appeared to hang when it came up after 
> hibernation, at the moment I expected X to come up. This seems to be 
> fixed with some update from this week. Because I saw many issues about 
> hibernation on bugzilla, I thought I'd bring this to you attention anyway.
> 
I can't get hibernate or sleep to work properly.  When I put my computer
to sleep or hibernate, I can't get it to wake up no matter how hard I
try.

God bless,
Lukas