On Fri, 2018-03-09 at 12:17 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 12:10 AM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > wrote: > > Hi folks! > > > > So, Fedora 28 has inherited an upstream GNOME change to default to > > suspending after 20 minutes: > > > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681869 > > > > I believe this will also apply to live images, unless we suppress it. > > Should we suppress it? Suspending live images does not work well and > > is, I think, expressly not really 'supported'. > > > > Any more details about how suspending live images doesn't work? It's > obviously not good if you boot the Fedora installer, wait 20 minutes, and > then find that the system is crashed in some bad state. Well, the live image basically runs in RAM already; suspending then attempts to dump the whole running state to...RAM... I honestly don't have a detailed tech explanation of how/why it doesn't work, but it's one of those things I've just always kinda had on my 'yeah of course that doesn't work' list, and every so often someone *does* try doing it and report that it doesn't work. I appreciate this is a bit squishy. :) I'll try and test it out a bit and see just how much it does / doesn't work, if I get time, but I've got a lot of more urgent stuff on right now :( > Is this something that we could detect in the suspend triggering code > rather than changing configuration for the live image? Well......sorta. At least AIUI, I believe that there isn't a 100% reliable way of determining "this is a live session". It's easy to know, of course, "this is a *Fedora* live session", but that's not a generic solution for an upstream like GNOME. There is not, so far as I know anyway, a fully distro-agnostic indicator that "this system is running live". -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
