Users with laptops please help me debug an issue

[The_Document]

Trying to debug an issue were hdd remounts after laptop is connected/disconnected. If your on a laptop please let me know if you get this:

[eccerr0r]

Need to be a bit more specific here...what the heck are you doing to trigger this? Connecting/disconnecting what? Power to the hard drive?

The root disk shouldn't/can't be unmounted without all applications with open writeable files. So no I've not seen this on my laptops. Especially SATA root disks.

I've not tried to study what it does with USB root disks. This could be a different situation.
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[skellr]

[The_Document]

[eccerr0r]

It's probably flushing the disk cache unnecessarily? Are you using any desktop environment with power management?
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[The_Document]

[eccerr0r]

Apmd? Do you have an older machine or do you mean acpid?
Are you using acpid, and does it do it without acpid running?
Something is triggering your software stack when the charger is removed, usually it's acpid but perhaps apmd also supports it... how that event is handled is what we need to look at...
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[skellr]

Yes

It's something in laptop mode. edit /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf to disable it and it will really stop. Just stopping the lm "daemon" won't disable it if something else calls it.

[The_Document]

It was certainly laptop-mode-tools I tested by unmerging it. After all my blames on the kernel see here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8199708.html#8199708
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5834652#post5834652
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5834967#post5834967

I even made an initramfs of 245MB and used ubuntus kernel config (which enables all options) it turns out its just laptop mode tools. I was even considering distro hopping to kubuntu, I want gentoo because with Kubuntu I sacrifice true the command line interface and use the equivalent of the linux version of windows which means there is hardly any command line.

Problem resolved and resolved with a post to the chat forum not to hardware or other forum boards.

Let me tell you guys that a 245MB initramfs takes like 4-8 seconds to load. I am very happy I resolved this issue.

I can finally remove the huge space requirement of the modules and other uneeded kernel files:

[skellr]

Ouch, that's alot of stuff in there.

[karmaking]

Same here, could fix it with disabling laptop-mode.

Or rather work around it, I'd say.

Any thoughts on how to actually fix this? Fwiw, I'd rather like my lm enabled. What could be the offender here to call it like that all the time?

Cheers, D.

[Goverp]

I've been setting up a new laptop, and had problems with laptop_mode_tools, such as unexpectledly frequent hard disk spin down. The box also had pm-utils, which duplicates a fair bit of laptop_mode_tools, so I removed one, leaving just pm-utils. That seems to be better. Your mileage will vary.
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[albright]

FWIW, I have found tlp works better than laptop-mode-tools;
lots of control over hard disks etc.
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