Ever since installing Fedora 19, I've had an odd problem.
Suspend by closing the lid on my laptop is spotty. It works sometimes, it doesn't work sometimes.
I'll close the lid, and it won't suspend. I can open it, shut it, over and over, no suspend. Finally I suspend manually and it works. Other times it works by lid close fine.
So I decide that I'll fire up a terminal and tail -f /var/log/messages, get to the bottom of this. See if the issue is with no acpi event or what. I fire up a terminal, tail the log, and shut the lid.
It suspends fine.
For a week solid, each time I went to suspend, I was tailing the log and each time, it worked fine. I haven't had an issue suspending all week.
Today, I decided specifically NOT to tail the log, and shut the lid... no suspend. Opened it back up, fired up a terminal to tail the log, shut the lid. Suspended just fine.
I jokingly say to myself that suspend is clearly affected by observation!!! ;)
Which reminded me of this certain quantum subatomic particle that is supposedly affected by observation...
It's popularized by the thought experiment... "Schrödinger's cat".
Obviously my laptop is both suspended and alive at the same time. Haha.
And then it hit me. What just so happens to be the code name for Fedora 19?
Oh... you Fedora developers. Well played, sirs. Well played. :cool:
Suspend by closing the lid on my laptop is spotty. It works sometimes, it doesn't work sometimes.
I'll close the lid, and it won't suspend. I can open it, shut it, over and over, no suspend. Finally I suspend manually and it works. Other times it works by lid close fine.
So I decide that I'll fire up a terminal and tail -f /var/log/messages, get to the bottom of this. See if the issue is with no acpi event or what. I fire up a terminal, tail the log, and shut the lid.
It suspends fine.
For a week solid, each time I went to suspend, I was tailing the log and each time, it worked fine. I haven't had an issue suspending all week.
Today, I decided specifically NOT to tail the log, and shut the lid... no suspend. Opened it back up, fired up a terminal to tail the log, shut the lid. Suspended just fine.
I jokingly say to myself that suspend is clearly affected by observation!!! ;)
Which reminded me of this certain quantum subatomic particle that is supposedly affected by observation...
It's popularized by the thought experiment... "Schrödinger's cat".
Obviously my laptop is both suspended and alive at the same time. Haha.
And then it hit me. What just so happens to be the code name for Fedora 19?
Oh... you Fedora developers. Well played, sirs. Well played. :cool: