On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 8:58 AM, Kamil Paral
<kparal(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:10 AM, Adam Williamson <
> adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks!
>>
>> So, Fedora 28 has inherited an upstream GNOME change to default to
>> suspending after 20 minutes:
>>
>>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681869
>>
>> I believe this will also apply to live images, unless we suppress it.
>> Should we suppress it? Suspending live images does not work well and
>> is, I think, expressly not really 'supported'.
>>
>
> Today, we have tested what happens when anaconda installation takes
> longer than the auto-suspend timeout. The good news is that anaconda
> inhibits idle timer, meaning the installation is not suspended during the
> installation phase. The bad news is that once the installation is complete,
> and I mean *immediately* after that, the system suspends. You can't even
> say whether the installation finished or not. At one instant you see an
> "almost finished" anaconda screen, and a split second later your system
> "shuts down". (It really looks like the power cable was plugged off).
> There's no screen dimming, no grace period to let the user react (as there
> is when the screen is about to lock down). So overall this is a poor
> experience. In this particular case, it's related to anaconda auto-exiting
> after installation is complete:
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1553935
> But the same thing would happen even if it didn't auto-exit, just
> released the idle lock.
>
Thanks for testing it - did the system recover from suspend? (Was this
testing from a USB drive?)
Yes, it recovered fine and it was from USB. We'll test optical media as
well.
Please note that this might be hardware specific. I'm quite sure I remember
a situation in the past when I suspended Live running from DVD (by
accident) and it was frozen on resume (the DVD didn't spin up). But we'll
see whether we can reproduce this reliably, now that this situation is
quite likely to happen.