Comment 11 for bug 203537

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Paul Novotny (paul-novotny) wrote : Re: [Bug 203537] Re: Hardy -- pm-suspend RUINS PARTITION TABLE

FYI, here is a description of how to remove the Suspend and Hibernate
buttons. I wasn't comfortable having them around so I can accidentally
hit them.

http://jeremy.visser.name/2007/02/08/how-to-disable-suspend-and-hibernate-for-all-users-in-ubuntu/
Pay attention to comment #3, since the flag location has been moved.

I also disabled suspend and hibernate in '/etc/defulat/acpi-support',
don't know what that changed, but I did it anyways.

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:38 -0500, Igor Chudov wrote:
> Yep, I agree totally. In fact I recently wanted to check if the
> suspend is working already, but it seems like I should wait.
>
> i
> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:06:49PM -0000, Paul Novotny wrote:
> > This happens to me too. fsck turned everything into unreadable numbered
> > files in lost+found
> >
> > I cannot believe this is a known bug that wiped out my hard drive. A two
> > month old known bug in the supposed rock solid Hardy Heron released
> > version. This is absolutely the worst bug possible! "On some computers
> > if you push the big shiney orange Suspend button, you loose all your
> > data". Are you serious.
> >