Devuan bug report logs - #617
initscripts: brightness init script sets brightness to zero, thus blanking laptop display

Package: initscripts; Maintainer for initscripts is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for initscripts is src:sysvinit.

Reported by: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:22:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 2.96-7+devuan1

Fixed in version 3.06-4devuan3

Done: dak@devuan.org

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From: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>, 617@bugs.devuan.org, devuan developers internal list <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>
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Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#617: bug#617: initscripts: brightness init script sets brightness to zero, thus blanking laptop display
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:19:17 +0100
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Dear Mark, dear Jacob

Jacob Lundberg - 12.10.21, 19:19:50 CET:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:07:53AM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> > At least you have a workaround that will avoid the issue for you
> > again. If you get any other ideas about clean fixes, do say.
> 
> Why not just refuse to *update* to 0 at shutdown.  It seems like 0 is
> a special case the user is fairly unlikely to have set it to themself
> (but if they do want 0 they are probably technical enough to update
> the setting file on their own).

I think that would be a good idea.

I'd really welcome this after I "bricked" another device due to exactly 
this bug. I needed to put GRML to an USB stick and boot from there in 
order to recover.

Have a relaxing, quiet and peaceful time, a merry Christmas!

Best,
-- 
Martin

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Devuan bug report logs - #617 initscripts: brightness init script sets brightness to zero, thus blanking laptop display

Devuan bug report logs - #617
initscripts: brightness init script sets brightness to zero, thus blanking laptop display