Thinkpad T61 doesn't want to hibernate... standbye working fine.

hubutz · 2009-03-21 21:21:14

Hi all,

I've recently got mostly of the stuff on my T61 working that is necessary for me. Standbye is just working like a charm, BUT hibernate which is really useful when travelling in the train and such... isn't working at all.
If i use pm-hibernate (or just click "Hibernate to Harddisk" (don't know if that's the proper translation) in KDE) it is starting to write all the stuff from the RAMs to my swap-fs - at least i suppose that this is happening - but just in the moment the notebook should turn of it wakes up again... I don't really have a clue what to do - as I just started to use Linux recently.

Anyone got an idea?

I can post some configs here - if I'm beeing told which ones.

Thanks and cheers,
hubutz

blackhole · 2009-03-21 21:46:53

Is your swap partition at least as big as your RAM so that your memory can be written completely to your disk when hibernating?

hubutz · 2009-03-21 21:54:41

yeah, got 4 GB of RAM and just increased the size of my swap to 4,2 GB (was 4GB before) as i thought about the same thing

blackhole · 2009-03-22 06:40:06

What exactly do you mean by "it's waking up again"? Does it come back as it was before with all applications still open or does it just restart?

I don't think this causes the error, but just to remove another error source for later: have you added the resume kernel parameter in /boot/grub/menu.lst like for example:

kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 resume=/dev/sda2 ro vga=0

where /dev/sda2 would be your swap partition.

Also check http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pm-utils for more details.

hubutz · 2009-03-22 08:25:29

Hey,

it's just waking up again in the same state it has been before i tryed to get it sleeping. I've added the swap via UUID to the menu.lst, see:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/ba24798e-0e92-4fdd-b34a-b3189bdbb843 ro

Cheers,
hub

PS: I've just configured it like it's explained in that wiki entry.

//EDIT
Just installed Ubuntu on a spare FS and had a look if it works there... worked like a charm. retryed it Arch -> working too. Quite strange *ggg*
Just not that performant at all..

Last edited by hubutz (2009-03-22 10:29:11)

blackhole · 2009-03-22 14:21:06

Hm, weird...

Did you close the lid or something while the machine was hibernating?

hubutz · 2009-03-22 19:24:36

Nope, didn't do anything different (at least I do not know what should have been different)

turtle · 2009-03-22 19:30:18

On my laptop HP Compaq 6820s pm-hibernate used to work. A few days ago I noticed that it stopped to work. I provide some lines from the file /var/log/pm-suspend.log

Sun Mar 22 19:45:02 CET 2009: performing hibernate
/usr/lib/pm-utils/pm-functions: line 275: echo: write error: No such device
Sun Mar 22 19:45:09 CET 2009: Awake.

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#1 2009-03-21 21:21:14

Thinkpad T61 doesn't want to hibernate... standbye working fine.

#2 2009-03-21 21:46:53

Re: Thinkpad T61 doesn't want to hibernate... standbye working fine.

#3 2009-03-21 21:54:41

Re: Thinkpad T61 doesn't want to hibernate... standbye working fine.

#4 2009-03-22 06:40:06

Re: Thinkpad T61 doesn't want to hibernate... standbye working fine.

#5 2009-03-22 08:25:29

Re: Thinkpad T61 doesn't want to hibernate... standbye working fine.

#6 2009-03-22 14:21:06

Re: Thinkpad T61 doesn't want to hibernate... standbye working fine.

#7 2009-03-22 19:24:36

Re: Thinkpad T61 doesn't want to hibernate... standbye working fine.

#8 2009-03-22 19:30:18

Re: Thinkpad T61 doesn't want to hibernate... standbye working fine.

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