pm-utils 1.4.1-2: no powersaving hooks

youplease · 2011-01-22 09:50:52

Does anybody know why all powersaving hooks (/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/*) have been removed from the latest pm-utils package?

youplease · 2011-01-23 12:57:27

I've rebuilt the package to include these files. Actually I use only harddrive hook to set my harddrive power management and acoustic settings. But I'm wondering why they were removed. Did they break anything or conflict with some other packages?

useradded · 2011-01-24 09:50:32

I would very much like to know about this too. Those hooks were great, where did they go?

useradded · 2011-01-24 10:16:01

Also, as I understand it, the latest update was an Arch rebuild in which the pkgrel was bumped from 1 to 2, so this seems to be an Arch-specific change/mistake

JGC · 2011-01-24 14:00:47

This is not a mistake, but intended. If we go trough the hooks, none of them restores the previous configured values before they were altered. IMHO pm-utils should not be the one controling that.
Then there's the intel-audio-powersave hook that has been broken since it existed, but so far nobody reported bugs about that.
Another thing is the harddisk hook that kills harddisks by setting a way too low powerdown timeout.

Fedora kills all these hooks in their package because of this, debian just removes the harddisk hook because it's killing harddisks. Upstream hasn't done any commits to pm-utils in months, the only fixes that were done are those done by debian: a fix for the intel-audio-powersave hook. The harddisk hook still kills harddisks.

Pierre · 2011-01-24 14:35:24

The project seems to be dead. I reported about the intel-audio issue some time ago: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31034, but nobody cares.I hope someone will take over or fork the project.

Imho the other sleep hooks and the design in general are questionable as well.

useradded · 2011-01-24 15:11:32

@JGC & Pierre, thanks for the quick and clear response. Sad to see that pm-utils is potentially no more.

Edit: or is it just the powersave aspect of pm-utils that seems dead?

Last edited by useradded (2011-01-24 15:54:30)

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#1 2011-01-22 09:50:52

pm-utils 1.4.1-2: no powersaving hooks

#2 2011-01-23 12:57:27

Re: pm-utils 1.4.1-2: no powersaving hooks

#3 2011-01-24 09:50:32

Re: pm-utils 1.4.1-2: no powersaving hooks

#4 2011-01-24 10:16:01

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#5 2011-01-24 14:00:47

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#6 2011-01-24 14:35:24

Re: pm-utils 1.4.1-2: no powersaving hooks

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