Bugzilla – Bug 164866
Can't suspend with attached USB/Firewire storage devices with non FAT/NTFS volumes
Last modified: 2008-06-25 09:55:53 UTC
If you have e.g. a USB harddisk attached with a mounted reiserfs partition (all non FAT/NTFS partitions are effected) you can't suspend your machine because powersave can't unload the usb-storage module. With FAT/NTFS it works because powersave umount this partitions by default. With hal you can check on which bus the partition/volume is located. Powersave should always umount (and remount on resume) all volumes on external USB/Firewire devices before try remove the usb-storage module.
Is automatically remounting really necessary? I don't think the powersaved has to do anything here.
yes, it is. USB for example will just silently drop the device on suspend, which is not what you want in terms of data security. We basically have to unmount all external storage before suspend and remount them afterwards - or refuse the suspend. We do the latter now and somebody needs to decide if this issue is critical enough to fix it right now or if it can wait until SP1 or a maintenance update.
AJ, Thorsten, Joe, please decide.
*** Bug 164322 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
FAT/VFAT does not work reliable for me, too. Had this problem on Sunday. So something for 10.2 or later, not for CODE10.
I agree with Thorsten.
Same for me.
Ok, so this is post-code10 GA. For a proper fix we need cooperation from the desktop-mount-programs anyway. I'll see what i come up with and then we can decide if it can go into a Service Pack. Severity Normal because of this.
Actually this is going to be pretty tricky to solve properly. Imagine user with active mp3 player (sda) and memory stick (sdb). Now you suspend, resume, and devices get detected in different order. Oops. Or user unplugs mp3 player and plugs digital camera. Tricky, tricky. I believe this is severity=enhancement, and pretty hard to do.
no, it is easy: HAL already handles all that, consistent naming and mount points etc. All we need is some help from the desktops, so we don't have to do all the unmounting and mounting by ourselves since the desktop mount programs already know what they have mounted where.
*** Bug 173921 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
So this is RESOLVED/LATER, right?
*** Bug 103927 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is now in FATE, 300647.
adding myself to cc since I'll probably be the one to implement this for GNOME
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED. In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;(