Comment 3 for bug 1902898

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dann frazier (dannf) wrote : Re: [Bug 1902898] Re: power-button action inconsistent between user session and greeter

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 7:45 AM Sebastien Bacher
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> is it important enough to justify doing the SRU work?

From my myopic (server-oriented) point-of-view, changing the default
in 20.04 to prompt is a good idea. I've found that users often install
Ubuntu Desktop on their server-class hardware, using their BMC virtual
KVM as a head. These systems tend to support suspend, but suspend
rarely works well. Some systems will go to sleep just fine - but have
no way to wake them up[*]. Others will try to suspend, only to
immediately come back out of suspend (presumably after trying to sleep
a device that doesn't support it), so it looks like the system failed
to react at all. Both seem like a non-intuitive reaction to an "IPMI
power off soft" command.

[*] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1862559