Hibernation

ewlabonte · 01-21-2007, 05:53 AM

I'm running etch on my laptop and I finally got hibernation to work. That is it works when I su to root and type "hibernate" at the command line. But when I right click on the power manager icon and select hibernate it gives me an error message. How do I get the hibernation script to work without logging in as root?

war1025 · 01-21-2007, 10:56 PM

you could maybe use sudo. I don't know for sure because I rather loathe the command myself. I'd much rather just do su and get it over with. But you might even be able to make a command button thing for it with like "sudo hibernate"?

You could give it a try.

ewlabonte · 01-21-2007, 11:18 PM

Yeah, that would probably work. It's just strange that when you right click on the powermanager there are "hibernate" and "suspend" entries in the menu but they don't work... I tried changing the permissions of /usr/sbin/hibernate, but that didn't work. It still gave me "hibernate: You need to run this script as root" error message.

war1025 · 01-22-2007, 03:58 PM

Ok, try this. It should work, I tried it but apparently I don't have the option to hibernate on my computer.

Assuming you have the normal panels on the top and bottom of your screen:
Pick one of them
Right click -> Add to panel
Custom application launcher
Name: Hibernate
Command: sudo hibernate
Icon: There are some pretty neat icons, I picked the green apple.

Give it a try.

EDIT: I guess they don't like it when you try to sudo in a command button.

ewlabonte · 01-24-2007, 12:20 PM

Thanks for your help. That worked.