[SOLVED] pm-suspend stopped working

jwhendy · 2011-02-28 23:24:42

Hi,

I tried to suspend my work computer today like I always do today, using

$ sudo pm-suspend

and the screen turned black but not off (had that backlit greyish look) and so I waited for it to go completely off... but it never did. It just came back to openbox. I have been using this method on my home and work computers for quite a long time without a single issue. Can anyone help me debug? Which log should I be looking at? It looks like (from pacman.log) that pm-utils updated on 1/27/2011, but that was quite a long time ago and I've suspended many times since then. I don't think I've changed anything else.

Oh, and I wondered if some open program was causing it to resume prematurely (or never suspend at all), however I just shutdown and started up and tried as the first thing I did a suspend and got the same results.

Any thoughts? I can try this on my home computer shortly and see if it's doing it there as well. If so, perhaps it was from a recent update?

Thanks,
John

Last edited by jwhendy (2011-03-01 02:20:29)

litemotiv · 2011-02-28 23:26:37

Please continue here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111474

Closing this thread to avoid duplication. If your issue does prove to be different than the ones described in the topic above, please use the report button and request it to be reopened.

--edit: on second thought, let's keep this open for now since you only seem to be having trouble suspending.

The log files you need to check out are primarily:

/var/log/messages.log
/var/log/kernel .log
/var/log/pm-suspend.log

Last edited by litemotiv (2011-02-28 23:30:55)

Arpione · 2011-03-01 01:39:41

This happens on my laptop too. If you run rmmod tpm_tis as root before pm-suspend, then it should work.

Last edited by Arpione (2011-03-01 01:40:47)

jwhendy · 2011-03-01 02:20:16

@Arpione: fantastic. Thanks so much. What an odd solution. I think I'm finally going to go ahead and finally build a custom kernel without TPM. From what I see HERE, I don't need it anyway. I used to build kernels on Zenwalk all the time, but I know arch has some type of "recommended" way (vs. just building them from scratch the "old fashioned way") so I've been postponing. Time to cut out the extra crap.

Thanks again.

eLBelga · 2011-03-02 19:17:53

I had the same issue and the solution provided above (rmmod tpm_tis) solved it! Thanks! I hope they fix this soon!

nTia89 · 2011-03-10 10:05:53

i have this issue but i can't rmmod tpm_tis because it isn't loaded

i'm on a desktop

some suggestions ?

jwhendy · 2011-03-10 14:21:53

@nTia89: well... if you don't have tpm-tis loaded, you might actually not have this specific problem. Some suggestions (completely unsure if they will help in the least, but just trying to brainstorm for you):

--- look for any tpm modules?

lsmod | grep tpm

Then see if rmmoding them helps?

--- exit out of your DE/WM/Xorg and see if running pm-suspend from the bare command line allows you to suspend? If so, maybe it's something in X that's preventing it?

nTia89 · 2011-03-10 14:38:27

first of all, thanks

second: i haven't any tpm module loaded

yes, my problem is a little different: first pm-suspend works fine but the second time i run pm-suspend i get your symptom : monitor doesn't go in standby but become only black and fans don't stop..... here because i post here

jwhendy · 2011-03-10 15:01:43

@nTia89: that's probably a different problem. Hopefully you'll get some responses at your original thread. I thought it might be related, so I directed you over here. Maybe I'll go post back in your thread to keep it in one place and also raise your topic back up to the top of the forum...

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