Suspend options disappeared

Leon Stringer leon.stringer at ntlworld.com
Mon Jul 17 19:02:35 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 15:10 +0200, Uno Engborg wrote:
> Andy Burns wrote:
> > Leon Stringer wrote:
> >
> >> Now, after a yum update, the Suspend and Hibernate options have all
> >> disappeared.
> >
> >
> My guess is that they were removed as a result of far too many systems 
> having broken ACPI functionality. E.g. It is quite annoying to have a 
> "Suspend" option in your places menu
> that results in your system going to sleep, without ever waking up.
> 
> Given the current state of things, the best thing would be to not add 
> the suspend things to the places menu by default, but have some GConf or 
> control panel setting to enable them on systems where they actually work.

If any maintainers are reading: Do you know if it's a decision to drop
the suspend/hibernate menu items or an oversight?

Is it a Fedora issue or GNOME issue?




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