Bug#457515: gnome-panel: disable hibernate when the on-disk kernel has been upgraded to a newer version

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 457515 hal
thanks

On dim, 2007-12-23 at 11:26 +0930, Paul Wise wrote:
> Package: gnome-panel
> Version: 2.20.2-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Yesterday I upgraded my kernel and stupidly proceeded to hibernate as I
> was running out of power. This resulted in the new kernel being unable
> to load the s2disk images and them being lost. It would be nice if the
> gnome-panel could detect this situation (kernel upgraded without
> rebooting) and either prevent me from hibernating by disabling the
> hibernate button or by popping up an error dialog explaining the
> situation.

This would indeed be nice, but for GNOME (gnome-power-manager, actually)
to do that, it would need hal to report it (which in turn may need a
decent error message from pm-utils).

Reassigning to the Utopia guys, who know better how this could be done.

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