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Hello again, Gentoo. |
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 11:03:00 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 20:49:45 +0200, tastytea wrote: |
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> > On 2021-09-18 18:39+0000 Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > > Hello, Gentoo. |
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> > > I used to have a utility pm-suspend which would suspend the current |
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> > > state of the machine to RAM (or, maybe to the swap partition) and shut |
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> > > the machine down to a resting state. A keypress or mouse movement |
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> > > would restore full functionality in a few seconds. |
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> > > I think I lost this program in the emerge --depclean I did a couple of |
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> > > months ago (the one that wanted to make my machine unbootable). |
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> > > Is there anything to take its place? In particular I want actively to |
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> > > put the machine into resting state (as opposed to it happening after a |
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> > > period of inactivity), and I would prefer to do this without having to |
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> > > start a GUI session. |
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> > > I feel there must be something like this in portage, I just don't know |
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> > > how to find it. |
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> > > Thanks for the help! |
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> > `loginctl suspend`[1] if you use sys-auth/elogind. `echo mem > |
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> > /sys/power/state`[2] if not. |
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> Thanks! |
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> Unfortunately, neither of them works. I tried s2ram too. It also |
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> doesn't work. |
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> What they all do is suspend the system, then immediately restore it, |
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> without the keyboard or mouse being touched. |
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> I'm sure the kernel isn't the problem: I tried it with three kernels |
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> going back to 5.4.97 and it failed on them all. pm-suspend worked on |
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> these. Similarly, I doubt my HW is the problem. |
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> At this stage, I think it's time to give up. I don't want to spend hours |
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> submitting bug reports and following up, or on endless web searches for |
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> solutions. The feature just isn't that important, convenient though it |
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> would be. |
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> Or maybe I'll try and find pm-suspend again on the web. Maybe it had |
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> some feature (or bug workaround) which the more modern packages are |
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> lacking. |
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That's just what I did. A web search for pm-utils found it easily |
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enough. pm-suspend works again, and I'm a happy chappy - almost. Why |
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was pm-utils taken off of portage in the first place? Was there some |
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sort of security problem, or was it just because it hadn't been updated |
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in a fair while (since 2013, I think)? |
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That's another feature missing from portage - a systematic way of |
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discovering why a package has been removed. |
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> > [1] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elogind#loginctl> |
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> > [2] <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.10/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.html#basic-sysfs-interfaces-for-system-suspend-and-hibernation> |
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> > -- |
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> > Get my PGP key with `gpg --locate-keys tastytea@××××××××.de` or at |
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> > <https://tastytea.de/tastytea.asc>. |
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-- |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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