On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:34:39PM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On 08/04/10 20:25, Richard Zidlicky wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 07:06:31PM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: >>> On 08/04/10 05:52, Richard Zidlicky wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> trying to fix this crash situation: /boot/vmlinuz-XXX exists and is the >>>> currently >>>> running kernel, I decide to reconfigure and recompile it, overwrite >>>> /boot/vmlinuz-XXX >>>> and hit pm-hibernate. >>>> ... ... ...
>> it was exactly the same kernel release - only slightly reconfigured& >> recompiled. > > Hmm. My apologies; you're absolutely right. > > I'll have to email Rafael (cc'd) - I'm not sure why that check is still > there. I know it is possible for you to hibernate one kernel and resume > from another - I've done it with TuxOnIce using the low-level code > Rafael put in. Perhaps he's discovered something that makes it > unreliable or such like. whatever the reason for this check - it is now there and the same check should be done before hibernation otherwise resume will fail "mysteriously" with risk of data loss. Richard _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
