hibernate/suspend?

[Mike Leahy]

Hello list,

I installed FC5T3 yestereday.  I found that I was able to successfully 
hibernate/restart before running any updates.  However, it took about 3 
or 4 minutes to complete, partly because of some errors I get when the 
screen first goes blank...something that looks like:

"end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, <something else here>".

Last time I asked about this, somebody said it was an issue with the 
kernel.

At any rate, I ran yum to update the system, and hibernate is pooched 
again...it just goes black, shows those end_request errors about 
accessing a floppy device that I don't even have on my laptop, and then 
just sits there.  As an alternative, I tried to suspend.  This worked 
halfway, until I un-suspended, after which I got just a blank screen. 
Is there anything I should do to try to debug either the suspend or 
hibernate tools?

Mike

[Orion Poplawski]

Mike Leahy wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I installed FC5T3 yestereday.  I found that I was able to successfully 
> hibernate/restart before running any updates.  However, it took about 3 
> or 4 minutes to complete, partly because of some errors I get when the 
> screen first goes blank...something that looks like:
>
> "end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, <something else here>".
>
> Last time I asked about this, somebody said it was an issue with the 
> kernel.

Remove fd0 from /boot/grub/device.map, should fix that I think.

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:58 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Mike Leahy wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I installed FC5T3 yestereday.  I found that I was able to successfully 
> > hibernate/restart before running any updates.  However, it took about 3 
> > or 4 minutes to complete, partly because of some errors I get when the 
> > screen first goes blank...something that looks like:
> >
> > "end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, <something else here>".
> >
> > Last time I asked about this, somebody said it was an issue with the 
> > kernel.
>
> Remove fd0 from /boot/grub/device.map, should fix that I think.

Changed pm-hibernate in CVS to add --no-floppy to the grub invocation

Jeremy

[Pekka Pietikäinen]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:58:48PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > Last time I asked about this, somebody said it was an issue with the 
> > kernel.
>
> Remove fd0 from /boot/grub/device.map, should fix that I think.

Yup, it does (for me at least).

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155876

is the relevant bug (well, added a comment there since it seems to
be the same thing, --no-floppy doesn't do what one would expect it to do)

Or should anaconda/whatnot even be putting fd0 there in the first place?
*shrug*

[Peter Jones]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 01:30 +0200, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:58:48PM -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > > Last time I asked about this, somebody said it was an issue with the 
> > > kernel.
> >
> > Remove fd0 from /boot/grub/device.map, should fix that I think.
>
> Yup, it does (for me at least).
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155876
>
> is the relevant bug (well, added a comment there since it seems to
> be the same thing, --no-floppy doesn't do what one would expect it to do)
>
> Or should anaconda/whatnot even be putting fd0 there in the first place?
> *shrug*

As of booty-0.70-1 we no longer add the fd0 entries.  Thanks for the
report.

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:58 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Mike Leahy wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I installed FC5T3 yestereday.  I found that I was able to successfully 
> > hibernate/restart before running any updates.  However, it took about 3 
> > or 4 minutes to complete, partly because of some errors I get when the 
> > screen first goes blank...something that looks like:
> >
> > "end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, <something else here>".
> >
> > Last time I asked about this, somebody said it was an issue with the 
> > kernel.
>
> Remove fd0 from /boot/grub/device.map, should fix that I think.

This seems to be a bug in the install (anaconda).
I just did an install on a new machine. It has no floppy drive, and has
the bios set to no floppy (although the floppy controller is enabled).

The /boot/grub/device.map contains a line such as 
(fd0)     /dev/fd0
for a floppy that is non-existant.

Why is that there? It is not there and never was at the time of the
install.