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quantumphaze

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 175

pm-utils scripts broke (load cycle count)

The load cycle count issue is easily fixed in Arch the same way as on the OpenSuse wiki and on Ubuntu forums (a fix for when you suspend/resume is mentioned later in that thread). It is done by using scripts in /etc/pm/{config.d|power.d|sleep.d}.

This worked fine for me until 2 days ago when it seems that the pm-utils scripts just stopped working. When I boot up the hdparm level is at 128 and I have to manually change it to 254. The scripts are supposed to change it when I (un)plug the power supply which it no longer does.

I tried to downgrade both pm-utils and hdparm (they were both upgraded recently) and it still didn't fix it. I'll leave them downgraded to see if a reboot fixes it tomorrow morning.

Did this happen to anyone else?

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quantumphaze

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 175

Re: pm-utils scripts broke (load cycle count)

It also will not suspend any more through dbus (from KDE shutdown options). I have to run pm-suspend from a root terminal. WTF happened?

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walmis

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From: Klaipeda, Lithuania

Registered: 2009-02-22

Posts: 13

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Re: pm-utils scripts broke (load cycle count)

My pm scripts stopped executing too recently. What gives?

quantumphaze

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 175

Re: pm-utils scripts broke (load cycle count)

I have no idea, I never solved the problem with that laptop. However I installed Arch64 on my new laptop on the weekend and the hdparm settings work perfectly.

I see that there is a new script /etc/pm/sleep.d/99laptop-mode

#!/bin/sh
#
# 99laptop-mode: Re-apply laptop mode tools settings

case "$1" in
        hibernate|suspend)
                # Stopping is not required.
                ;;
        thaw|resume)
                # Make laptop mode tools forcibly re-apply the hardware settings
                # that laptop mode tools applies.
                if [ -e /usr/sbin/laptop_mode ] ; then
                        /usr/sbin/laptop_mode auto force
                fi
                ;;
        *) exit $NA
                ;;
esac

Try that out (don't forget chmod +x).

Idea: Edit the scripts to write to a file to see if they ever actually run. Add echo "banana" > /var/log/hdparmhack for example

The problem will probably come down to PolicyKit which broke my ability to suspend from KDE on the same day. And I only fixed that last week.

Last edited by quantumphaze (2009-04-16 11:53:46)

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