devkit-power-daemon broken?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 18:10 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:32 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On 14 April 2010 19:02, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > AFAIK none of these are generic bugs. Handling AC plug/unplug is
> > > actually not as simple as it seems, and can vary from device to device
> > > (or, rather, ACPI implementation to ACPI implementation). So this is to
> > > a degree system-specific.
> > 
> > It's totally system specific. I'm clearing bugs (and adding
> > workarounds) as fast as I can, but if you really want a bug fixed
> > "ASAP" you've essentially got two options:
> > 
> > * Pay someone for a support contract to diagnose and fix the bug (if
> > you pay Red Hat, I'll probably be me) -- this means it jumps my TODO
> > list by an order of magnitude.
> > * Find the bug and write a tiny patch to fix it, and send it to me
> > 
> > I've only got 24 hours in a day, just like everybody else.
> > 
> > Richard.
> 
> That's really not what I meant. I really appreciate the work you're
> putting into it. Thank you :)
> 
> I've got no idea of how this stuff works. If you could give some
> references etc., I could at least begin to learn something on this and
> *maybe* be able to write a patch someday (highly unlikely though :| )

I know the first step is basically to kill the upowerd instance that's
running as a daemon and run it from a console instead, and examine what
happens when you do the plug/unplug.
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