From: Adrian Vovk <adrianvovk@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 19:08:35 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: NEWS: Add note about freezing user session changes
X-Git-Tag: v256-rc1~617^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F30612%2Fhead;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

NEWS: Add note about freezing user session changes

These changes have the potential to break suspend on systems with
proprietary NVIDIA drivers, so we should make a big NEWS entry about it
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cd9965aaded..86b7ba77680 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ CHANGES WITH 256 in spe:
           mounted at some path, for example /boot/efi/ (this type of setup is
           obsolete but is still commonly found).
 
+        * The behavior of systemd-sleep and systemd-homed has been updated to
+          freeze user sessions when entering the various sleep modes or when
+          locking a homed-managed home area. This is known to cause issues with
+          the proprietary NVIDIA drivers. Packagers of the NVIDIA proprietary
+          drivers may want to add drop-in configuration files that set
+          SYSTEMD_SLEEP_FREEZE_USER_SESSION=false for systemd-suspend.service
+          and related services, and SYSTEMD_HOME_LOCK_FREEZE_SESSION=false for
+          systemd-homed.service.
+
         Network Management:
 
         * systemd-networkd's proxy support gained a new option to configure