disabling sleep when shutting down

[Anthony Jenkins]

On 09/18/2015 01:51 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On 09/17/2015 19:12, Colin Percival wrote: > > On 09/17/15 13:31, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > >> On 09/16/2015 23:49,
Colin Percival wrote: > >>> I ran into an interesting glitch recently: I
told my laptop to > >>> shut down, then closed the lid... and it
promptly went into S3. > >>> When I opened the lid a couple days later,
it resumed... and > >>> then finished the shutdown which it had started
2 days > >>> earlier. > >> > >> Please try the attached patch. > > > No,
this doesn't do what I wanted.  It might be a good idea anyway, > > but
your patch only disables suspend once the kernel is trying to > >
reboot; what I want is to disable suspend a bit earlier -- once > >
rc.shutdown is running and the userland is trying to shut down, > >
because at that point unless something breaks horribly we're *about > >
to* tell the kernel to shut down even though we haven't gotten > > there
quite yet. > > Okay.  The attached patch is a quick-and-dirty & untested
hack for you. > > Jung-uk Kim

Is it possible for /etc/rc.shutdown to complete, but shutdown not
occur?  If so, there should be a mechanism to restore the ability to
suspend.  Other than that, I like it.

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Anthony Jenkins