S05vbesave boot message

[Bill Christiansen]

On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 01:39 +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
>On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 10:11 +1300, Bill Christiansen wrote:
>>I noticed the following boot message:
>>/etc/rc2.d/S05vbesave: line 14: [: = : unary operator expected
>>
>>looking at line 14 of this file:
>>if [ $SAVE_VBE_STATE = "true" ]; then
>>
>>any problem here?
>>
>>
>
>The problem mentioned, happen when the variable SVAE_VBE_STATE (found
>in /etc/default/acpi-support) is unset (deleted) or set to nothing.
>
>To correct this problem, re-install the package "acpi-support" and use
>the default configuration file when (if?) prompted (if this didn't
>happen, just add a line with "SAVE_VBE_STATE=true"
>in /etc/default/acpi-support).
>
>As for the maintainer of the "acpi-support" package, line 14
>of /etc/init.d/vbesave should read:
>
>        if [ x"$SAVE_VBE_STATE" = x"true" ]; then
>
>just in case if the user sets the SAVE_VBE_STATE variable to nothing or
>commented/deleted the line.
>
>
Thanks for your explanation and advice, I had commented out that line in
the /etc/default/acpi-support as it caused some video disturbance when
resuming from suspend to disk:

# Should we save and restore state using the VESA BIOS Extensions?
#SAVE_VBE_STATE=true

Maybe I should have changed it to SAVE_VBE_STATE=false instead ?