Re: Lenovo crashes on resume on battery problem

[Robert Moskowitz]

ARGH!  Work. But not while I am at this meeting...

On 4/1/25 11:50 AM, Roger Heflin wrote:
> There is no resume when something crashes because nothing ever got
> saved to resume.
>
> And I would not assume that the last message/"error" on your screen
> has anything to do with the crash.   The message/"error" in question
> may actually happen on EVERY boot and when it crashes you see that
> always there error/warning and assume it has something to do with the
> error.
>
> I would install crash and kdump-utils and add crashkernel=auto to the
> kernel command line and reboot and confirm that /proc/cmdline has a
> crashkernel= entry on the command line.
>
> And then run "systemctl enable kdump" and "systemctl start kdump" and
> then a few minutes later "systemctl status kdump" to make sure it is
> armed.
>
> Once that is done on anything except a low level hardware crash/reset
> it will collect a crashdump, and if it does not collect a crashdump
> then that makes it a lot more likely you have a hardware problem of
> some sort.  The crashdump will contain any dmesg entries that are in
> the dmesg buffer at the time the machine panics.
>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM Robert Moskowitz  wrote:
> > On 4/1/25 11:03 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM Robert Moskowitz  wrote:
> > > > On 4/1/25 10:46 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM Robert Moskowitz  wrote:
> > > > > > How can I find out my firmware ver without rebooting into setup?  Is
> > > > > > there some Linux tool to report this?
> > > > >
> > > > > dmidecode
> > > >
> > > > BIOS Information
> > > >        Vendor: LENOVO
> > > >        Version: GSET74WW (2.19 )
> > > >        Release Date: 04/22/2020
> > > >
> > > > So I am current wrt to the basic BIOS
> > >
> > > Very good. Now you can proceed with kernel, driver and userland troubleshooting.
> >
> > And how to proceed?
> >
> > BTW, my battery level got down to 70% and I crashed.  System just shut off.
> >
> > And interestingly, on restart, nothing is remembered from my last
> > session to auto restart.  I thought I had that set?  It seemed to work
> > right in my last reboot a couple weeks ago...
> > > > And I found the following:
> > > >
> > > > Handle 0x001C, DMI type 22, 26 bytes
> > > > Portable Battery
> > > >        Location: Rear
> > > >        Manufacturer: SANYO
> > > >        Name: 45N1176
> > > >        Design Capacity: 62160 mWh
> > > >        Design Voltage: 10800 mV
> > > >        SBDS Version: 03.01
> > > >        Maximum Error: Unknown
> > > >        SBDS Serial Number: 0101
> > > >        SBDS Manufacture Date: 2021-02-18
> > > >        SBDS Chemistry: LION
> > > >        OEM-specific Information: 0x00000000
> > >
> > > Jeff
> >
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