Bug#606017: nvram-wakeup: can't access /dev/mem

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 02:03:02PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> On Monday 13 December 2010 00:02:08 you wrote:

> > There isn't enough information provided.
> > 
> > The package nvram-wakeup contains a number of binaries.  What command
> > was run?  What was the output?  What was the expected output?
> 
> # nvram-wakeup 
> nvram-wakeup: /dev/mem: Operation not permitted
> 
> And that's it...

Thanks.  Was that run as root?  

On my system, the command nvram-wakeup gives "Permission denied" when
run as non-root, but does provide output when run as root.

I'm not part of the nvram-wakeup maintenance team, so I won't make the
call, but I do wonder whether this is truly a grave problem in the
sense that it renders the package unusable for everyone or whether it
is a case of not supporting all possible motherboards (which is
a bug, but not a grave one).

Cheers,
-Steve


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