Crippling Gnome-power-manager, Why!

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 2/15/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> This is by design at this point.  Upstream(?) feels that shutdown
> shouldn't be an option, just suspend.  Personally I think that's a load
> of crap, but that's just my personal opinion.  I have to use shut down a
> lot w/ my laptop since hibernate isn't working and my laptop will eat
> the battery in very short time if I leave it suspended and unplugged.

how do you cleanly boot into an update kernel without a shutdown option?
Is upstream honestly saying that shutting a laptop down to reboot into
a security update kernel isn't an important operation?

-jef