Bug 104668

Summary:	hibernate-script should instruct user to manually install additional utils (vbetool, radeontool, ...)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jochen Trumpf <Jochen.Trumpf>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mobile Herd (OBSOLETE) <mobile+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Jochen Trumpf 2005-09-02 20:21:45 UTC

hibernate-script should runtime depend on vbetool.  
In case the user enables vbetool related stuff in /etc/hibernate/hibernate.conf 
or /etc/hibernate/ram.conf this will silently (except for an entry 
in /var/log/hibernate.log) fail if vbetool has not been emerged.  
Especially in connection with hibernate-ram and framebuffer devices (here  
vesafb on a Dell Inspiron 8600 with nvidia graphics) this leads to problems  
that are extremely hard to diagnose (blank screen after resume). 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-09-03 02:16:09 UTC

sys-power/hibernate-script can use a lot of external programs - but none of them
are runtime dependencies, unless the user enables them - in which case they need
to emerge the programs themselves. Otherwise the dependency list of
hibernate-script would be huge for no good reason.

Comment 2 Jochen Trumpf 2005-09-03 07:12:01 UTC

Okay, understand, but how about adding an info text then that alerts the user 
to this fact? It cost me several hours to find the problem (vbetool is enabled 
in the standard config that ships with hibernate-script, it wasn't clear to me 
that it's an external program).

Comment 3 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-09-03 07:26:51 UTC

Good idea.

Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-10-20 06:42:22 UTC

Fixed InCVS.