Fedora 17 sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep; can't find OS ???

[Matthew J. Roth]

Steve wrote:
>
> Recently the F17 (x64) install on my Dell XPS 17 isn't waking up from 
> the sleep state.   I'm not sure if I'm invoking it to go into sleep or 
> if its an inactivity induced sleep.   Prior to recently, it always  woke 
> up from sleep without any issues.
>
> Furthermore, once in a while when I reset after not being able to wake 
> it from sleep, I'm getting an Operating System not Found error.   It 
> always finds the OS if I reset it again.
>
> Is anyone else having resume/booting issues with recent kernels after 
> entering the sleep state ?
>
> Is anyone else experiencing OS not found issues ?
> 
> uname -a
> Linux XPS.localdomain 3.8.4-102.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Mar 24 13:09:09 
> UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


Steve,

I'm not certain but it could be that your hard drive is failing.  Make sure you
have a recent backup of your important files then use smartctl to check the
health of your hard drive.

Regards,

Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer