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frank_einstien

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Registered: 2006-08-09

Posts: 51

suspend2 screwd my arch install

Hi

It all began.... when my friend helped me out with susp2 with a gentoo distro. It worked perfectly. So I installed the hibernate scrips from pacman, edited grub.conf and then ran hibernate. When I booted up, init starts ( OK I made mistake on grub.conf) but kdm simply launces a black screen and returns to the terminel. Since then it has refused to work.

I heard similar horror stories form my frind before,but what actually caudes this?

thanks

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iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: suspend2 screwd my arch install

probably not a suspend2 problem.

please post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file after  KDM fails.

James

frank_einstien

Member

Registered: 2006-08-09

Posts: 51

Re: suspend2 screwd my arch install

Hi

Sorry for my prevoius message . I posted it very late at night where most of my cognizant faculties go asleep but I dont.

On the third reboot, it logs in to KDE. But there are bizarre problems:

1. amarok is consuming way too much mem and causes CPU to jump to 100%.On closing it, CPU returns to 0%.

2. ksysguard reports that there is no swapspace available.

3. Opera is really unresponsive that im using konq to post this.

4. System feels too sluggish.

So what is the solution to these problems? Also what could have gone wrong in my case?

Thanks

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: suspend2 screwd my arch install

The cause of your bizarre problems is most likely that you do indeed have no swap, as it was used to store a suspend2 image which subsequently failed to resume. Reinitialise your swap by doing

mkswap /dev/<swap_partition>
swapon -a

If/when you test your suspend2 again, have a look in /var/log/hibernate.log for details of what's actually happening.

patroclo7

Member

From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: suspend2 screwd my arch install

Any similar problem with stale suspend images in swap can be prevented running the hibernate-cleanup service at every boot, with no delay. List it in SERVICES in /etc/rc.conf. It is included in the hibernate-script package.

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