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toxic

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Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 117

Suspend keep booting me in the same state

I used suspend to disk and tried suspend to ram on the standard 2.6-17 kernel (not beyond).
Now every time I log in I'm being thrown back to where I left of the last time (but for that the functionality is really poor).
I did shutdown the computer properly, but I noticed that my swap partition is no longer active because of this.
swapon -a which would read m fstab file and make my swap partition won't work either. Complains about erronous arguments.
swapon /dev/sda6 does not work either.
My swap partition have been working fine all the time, and I'm sure that suspend managed to do somehting destructive to it.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Suspend keep booting me in the same state

mkswap <swap_partition>

is the fix.

man mkswap for full details.

toxic

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Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 117

Re: Suspend keep booting me in the same state

Yeah, that did fix the swap partition.
Initially I wasn't sure that was such a bright idea, now that the suspend software might have saved something important there. I saw there was actually a bunch of data saved, and manually reading from top of the /dev/sdaX gave a few lines hinting that the partition was in use by suspend.

Ah well, it seems to work now anyways. I'll probably stay away from the suspend button until I can patch the kernel with suspend2 or try to the beyond kernel.

Odd though that the same thing worked under kernel 2.6-16 without any problem. Ah well.

Anyway I should probably not complain. The other day I cursed arch for being to stable. You never learn unless things break

Peace

toxic

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Registered: 2006-06-05

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Re: Suspend keep booting me in the same state

Actually, it seems as suspend is still throwing me in to the last saved state, don't know how though.

Clues of this are
1. When I log in (no xdm/gdm/kdm here) I'm quickly moved in to a 'new' framebuffer with no chance of scrolling up to see earlier bootmessages and things like that. This was not the case before, and this does not happen when I log on as another user.
2. It seems that upon boot a little more ram is allocated now then it was before.

So it seem that suspend is still playing tricks with me ..  Now I'm a little bit puzzled of how to revert this.. Input appreciated 

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Suspend keep booting me in the same state

I've only ever used suspend2, so I can't offer anything more specific. I have had the occasional problem, but mkswap always got me back in order.