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--- Begin Message ---Package: acpid Version: 1.0.6-3 Severity: serious Tags: d-i For a long time, at least since sarge, d-i has installed acpid by default on acpi-capable systems. The reason is simple: Users have a very basic expectation, that pressing the power button will turn the machine off. This is a basic expectation, both because it's very basic to the design of the machine, that it have a button you can use to turn it off; and because users don't have a really refined concept of what the power button does. Any intiatation of an action that ends up with the machine turning off is broadly acceptable to most users. If this basic expectation is not met, all users will consider the system to be broken or not support their hardware well. While some users will be able to log in and shut it down by hand, others will mash on the power button until a hard power cutoff happens, potentially to their detriment. Note that users expect this to work whether or not a GUI environment is working. Indeed, being able to hit the power button to shut a headless server down cleanly is often even more important. This is my impression based on reading thousands of installation reports, as well as multiple user lists and forums, as well as observing users in RL. Perhaps I'm wrong. acpid's implementation of shutdown on power button press was clearly suboptimal. The problems were: #285779: Systems running desktops that don't handle power events are shut down on power button. #354445: Spurious power events on resume taking some machines down. (Also #401414) #386026: gnome-power-manager didn't get to do its thing since acpid ran shutdown. (Also #400409, #417306, #425291) #386026 seems easily fixable (after all, the script already does a similar test for KDE, which must work, based on the lack of bugs). The bug even includs an example of how to test for a running gnome-power-manager and let it do its thing. #354445 seems fixable. Apparently Matthew Garret has some robust fix for it. I suspect looking at Ubuntu might be helpful here. Fixing it by hand doesn't seem too tricky. #285779 is a weak bug. You hits the power button, and you takes your chances. Losing unsaved files is not an unexpected consequence, and should be especially expected by users who are proficient enough not to use gnome and kde. Calling this "data loss" smells of hyperbole. Surely the real data loss is when the power button fails to work, is mashed down for a hard power cut, and an unclean shutdown hoses the filesystem? The fact that gnome and kde go a step further with fancy shutdown support that tries to save all files and double-check that "you are ready to shut down your computer" a-la-windows doesn't make this behavior needed for ion and console users. acpid should fix #386026, put in the best available guard for #354445, and re-enable the behavior of shutting down when the power button is pressed. I have filed this bug report as severity serious because this is a serious reversion in functionality, that if shipped with lenny, will flood out support channels with users confused as to why their machine has stopped shutting down as they expect after the upgrade, as well as new installs trying to figure out why debian can't support a power button. I have tagged this bug d-i because I expect the d-i team will take the brunt of this support load, and because, if it's not fixed in the acpid package, we will have to find some other package to install that does fix it. -- see shy jo
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--- Begin Message ---Source: acpid Source-Version: 1.0.6-6 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of acpid, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: acpid_1.0.6-6.diff.gz to pool/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.6-6.diff.gz acpid_1.0.6-6.dsc to pool/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.6-6.dsc acpid_1.0.6-6_amd64.deb to pool/main/a/acpid/acpid_1.0.6-6_amd64.deb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated acpid package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 09:54:17 +1000 Source: acpid Binary: acpid Architecture: source amd64 Version: 1.0.6-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: acpid - Utilities for using ACPI power management Closes: 444065 444666 444676 447200 447339 449076 449078 449080 475785 481580 Changes: acpid (1.0.6-6) unstable; urgency=low . * New maintainer; closes: #481580 * Merge Ubuntu changes - Use MODULES="all"; closes: #449076 - Disable printk; closes: #449078 - Loading modules from the ubuntu directory; closes: #449080 * Limit syslog messages to >= NOTICE to avoid spamming unless in debug mode; patch by Loic Minier; closes: #447200 * Include "--oknodo" in init script start action; patch by Daniel Hahler; closes: #475785 * Don't fail during installation; closes: #447339 * Don't delete conffiles in /etc; closes: #444666 * Provide power button support; closes: #444676 * Fix typo in acpid.8; closes: #444065 * Fix the following lintian issues: W: acpid source: debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error line 18 Checksums-Sha1: c8fa246745975cf6dbfe3acfed8c51f2117bde09 1143 acpid_1.0.6-6.dsc 1537cb4b27bb0ebc39585cf3c3da9cd9467165b1 15627 acpid_1.0.6-6.diff.gz 95b52e27a3cdfaa55ecc65a50eb95c4ae5be8ee8 32742 acpid_1.0.6-6_amd64.deb Checksums-Sha256: aba72feba07e9dfd74ab42e49a96282229e474d833024b8eec27666a30eab8b5 1143 acpid_1.0.6-6.dsc dc236664960379d643cae8d27c4f0be28d5375a348c0f1307bb3ae929258d809 15627 acpid_1.0.6-6.diff.gz f2720c190613157bfcd1cec169a1697c96e5c54223b77a871f8515b453954881 32742 acpid_1.0.6-6_amd64.deb Files: 517310b7409629bc04132ec1bfc5e682 1143 admin optional acpid_1.0.6-6.dsc 8ff9a6759083ceaec419a60d68453682 15627 admin optional acpid_1.0.6-6.diff.gz 90b33aaeade0bce1bd296477740b9813 32742 admin optional acpid_1.0.6-6_amd64.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIMDcagY5NIXPNpFURAmTkAKCpv2E4AFpl9PaL6/MjeWJDcKlnKQCbBeTb GAgRAOb0o2QCTNX6p8ccvpo= =i39P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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