Resume from hibernate fails with kernel panic

mrpringle · 2014-01-29 10:39:42

Hi,
Suspend to ram works ok, but suspend to disk seems to mostly fail with a kernel panic. I'm not sure how to get the contents of the error, but it contains the following.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff800c902e000
IP: [..] load_image_lzo=0x7ee/0xe50
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

Call trace:
wake_up_atomic
swsusp_read
software_resume.part
resume_store
kobj_attr_store
sysfs_write
vfs_write
SyS_write
system_call_fastpath
RIP load_image_lzo

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init? exitcode=9

Any ideas what could be wrong? I'm running kernel 3.1.2.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT

I've had the laptop resume from hibernate successfully at least once (yesterday) but haven't had it work today.

mrpringle · 2014-01-29 10:55:02

Just ran memtest and it seems to crash after 3 minutes. I wonder if this is related?

scar · 2014-01-29 14:00:23

If memtest has crashed, you'd better change your faulty RAM - as it can be the source of all sorts of misery...
And yes, it could be related.
Also, try to check your RAM in another box.

Last edited by scar (2014-01-29 14:01:32)

mrpringle · 2014-01-29 21:03:54

on second thought I don't think it's a memory issue. Quite a few people have reported memtest86+ 5.01 freezing when running in multithreaded mode, and when I ran memtest on a different PC it also froze.. Too much of a coincidence I think. I'm running prime95 now and so far no issues. I'll let it run for a few hours but I think the hardware is stable, so now I need to figure out what is causing the hibernation issue.

Last edited by mrpringle (2014-01-29 21:04:29)

mrpringle · 2014-01-29 22:11:07

Another thing is I have a 4GB swap partition and 8GB of ram. Don't know whether this should be a problem?

mrpringle · 2014-01-30 10:57:56

ok, I've scanned the ssd for problems. stress tested the memory and cpu. I'm pretty sure the hibernate//resume problem is not caused by faulty hardware. Worst case scenario is I configure the computer so it never hibernates, but I would prefer to resolve the issue.

R00KIE · 2014-01-30 17:18:56

Try to disconnect as much stuff from your computer as possible and remove any cards in card readers.

With my laptop I've found that if I have an sd card in the card reader when resuming from hibernation I also get a kernel panic, no messages or errors shown on screen. I don't use hibernation much, so I have no idea when this started to happen but a few kernel releases ago it used to work without problems.

This particular card reader or implementation in my laptop is a bit temperamental, often I get errors related to the card reader when cold booting with a card inserted, so you probably want to look at the output of dmesg as see if anything is throwing errors during a normal cold boot, that might help narrow it down a bit.

You should have a swap partition as large as your ram if you want to hibernate (you will see this recommendation everywhere) but I guess the kernel will use only as much swap as it needs, I guess that if there isn't enough swap the kernel will just abort hibernation.

mrpringle · 2014-01-31 11:26:01

thanks for the suggestion. I can't see anything obvious in dmesg. Maybe I'll just leave it for now and in a few months it might magically work again after a kernel update.

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#1 2014-01-29 10:39:42

Resume from hibernate fails with kernel panic

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Re: Resume from hibernate fails with kernel panic

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