[Bug 316419] [NEW] Changes to support suspend/hibernate/resume testing

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In order to maximise testing and reporting on failed
suspend/hibernate/resume cycles we are proposing to modify processing
such it is possible to track whether a suspend/hibernate was in
progress.  This allows us to detect this on normal boot and then report
it via apport to launchpad.  Additionally we are delivering a suspend
stress test.  Change fall into three parts:

 - kernel: shipping the suspend stress test script with the kernel image itself,
 - pm-utils: modifications to actually track the what operations are in progress, and
 - apport: adding a new type of report for failed operations.

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KERNEL:
The changes here are already applied and released.

PM-UTILS:
simple new sleep.d script to expose the current 'in-progress' operations such that external scripts can detect it indicating a failure during that operation.

APPORT:
There are changes required to apport in order to support reporting of suspend/resume problems. During suspend and hibernate, pm-utils will create a 'flag' file while going down, and remove it while coming up. When the apport init script start function runs, it will check for the existence of this flag file. If it is present, it is assumed that a previous resume failed and that the user restarted the machine.

These changes to apport add the check in the init script. If the flag
file exists, then a python script is called which creates a crash report
file in /var/crash for later processing by apport, and the flag file is
deleted.

Martin Pitt has reviewed these [changes to apport] and approved them,
but he's on holiday this week, so could someone else please push them
into Jaunty?

** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Andy Whitcroft (apw)
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Andy Whitcroft (apw)
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: pm-utils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Andy Whitcroft (apw)
         Status: Fix Released

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Changes to support suspend/hibernate/resume testing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316419
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