Questions tagged [pm-utils]
several utilities and script useful for power management tasks. Questions about how to use, create and administrate the provided shell or scripts.
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pm-suspend vs systemctl suspend in Ubuntu 22.04
Currently, suspend does not work on my Thinkpad running ubuntu 22.04. I installed pm-utils (sudo apt install pm-utils) and when I run sudo pm-suspend everything works fine. What is the best way to ...
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How to determine if guest OS is suspended when running as virtual machine
Running CentOS 7 and in need to do some network related commands when suspended and resumed by the VMWare. Thus far all the solutions I have seen, is connected to pm-utils. But nothing appears to ...
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Is it a good practice to make different configuration files as symlinks to some scripts under the same directory?
I was wondering if it is a good practice to make the following configuration files as symlinks to some scripts under a directory e.g. ~/program_files/configurations/. The scripts /etc/rc.local, /etc/...
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Why are there these differences between suspension by the DEs and by pm-utils?
I found some differences between running pm-suspend and clicking "Suspend" menu item in LXDE on Ubuntu 16.04 In both cases I can wake up Ubuntu by pushing the power button on my laptop, but in the ...
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What's the relation between ACPI, udev, HAL and pm-utils
I'm trying to figure out how the power management in achieved in Linux because I want to fix some issues in my laptop. I have found thoughtful documentation about these elements separately. In other ...
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Running script before suspending while using dbus
I have a file: /etc/pm/sleep.d/85rmNvidiaModule. In it I have: #!/bin/bash case $1 in suspend) echo "Oh, this time we are doing a suspend to RAM. Cool!" sudo modprobe -r nvidia-...
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hibernate / suspend problems
Problem The Fn-F4 function key combination does not result in hibernating, instead it resets the internet connection instead Symptoms pm-hibernate and pm-suspend just reset the connection. hibernate ...
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Wake on LAN through PHY and unicast only works in the first ~30 seconds after pm-suspend
I'm having some trouble with Wake on LAN through PHY and unicast. I'm able to wake the system by pinging or sshing the shut down machine, but only within the first ~30 seconds. Why's that, what could ...
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