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server/minimal installs don't support power button events

Bug #338493 reported by BenKochie
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Bug Description

Similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/36838.

There are use cases for supporting the power button acpi event by default.

#1: It makes the behavior for server hardware the same as desktop. Pressing the button on the machine starts a clean shutdown.

#2: Running Ubuntu under virt-manager+KVM. It allows pressing the virtual machine shutdown button to work properly.

I think there is a case for power management turned on for servers by default to save electricity, but I am more worried about the power button event.

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BenKochie (ben-nerp) wrote :

I found some more info:

hw-detect/hw-detect.sh includes this code:

# Install acpi
if [ -d /proc/acpi ]; then
        apt-install acpi || true
        apt-install acpid || true
        apt-install acpi-support-base || true
fi

It seems like the issue is that the packages are just missing from the ISO file. If you were to network install the same thing, the packages would be installed.

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