Hibernate: not enough swap space

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 02/22/2012 07:33:45 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net>
> wrote:
> > root at puget[21]->swapon -U ad15f364-1e9b-493b-9351-d27e0f680c97
> <snip output>
> 
> Are you by chance using the Nvidia binary blob video driver?  It 
> might
> cause this issue, and there is a workaround:
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.31/README/
> chapter-09.html#kva_exhaustion
> 
> If you aren't, the suggestion there might still help, but you should
> also file a bug against the kernel [1].  (Don't bother doing so if 
> you
> are using the nvidia driver, the kernel team really can't do anything
> about it when that's in the mix.)
> 
> > #systemctl show swap.target
> <snip output>
> 
> This indicates that systemd is attempting to start your swap device,
> so the error you get when running `swapon` is the issue, not fstab or
> anything.
> 
> > There have been severall reports of similar problems, but with usb3
> > devices, which this disk is not.

I'm running nouveau, which works really well so that's not a problem, 
however, the Nvidia file that you pointed me to says, "If your system 
is equipped with an X86-64 (AMD64/EM64T) processor, it is recommended 
that you switch to a 64-bit Linux kernel/distribution." and that 
applies to me, sadly. So before I complain I'd better get myself a 64 
bit disto.

Thanks for your insights.