Shall we hide the GUI for Hibernate in Natty?

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Marc Deslauriers
<marc.deslauriers at canonical.com> wrote:
> Is there any data that suggests hibernate fails more often than suspend?
> I was under the impression that both would be broken when laptops
> weren't supported properly.

I only have anecdata: 2 of my 3 laptops can suspend but not hibernate.

> I haven't actually tried this in a long time, but what happens with
> current Ubuntu when the battery drains out while suspended?

It turns off.

> Does the
> laptop wake up and enter hibernation to prevent data loss?

No, but the disk does sync before suspend, so corruption isn't a
worry, just... "oops I didn't save before suspending."

> Will the
> removal of hibernation support from the kernel result in data loss when
> battery runs out during suspend? I think there's a difference between
> removing the hibernate button and removing hibernate completely if
> that's the case.

The one computer I have that can hibernate has a tendency to run out
of battery while trying to hibernate (since it takes multiple minutes)
if the hibernate is an automatic omg-you're-out-of-battery one not one
I've initialised.  In that case, I get to watch fsck on the next boot.
 Consequently, my automatic omg-you're-out-of-battery setting is now
suspend.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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