ThinkPad, APM S3, and kernel 2.6.9-1.724_FC3

Chris Ruprecht chrisr at ruprecht.org
Wed Jan 5 12:03:24 UTC 2005


After I disabled lm_sensors, my machine no longer freezes.
In order to do that, delete these sym-links:

/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S26lm_sensors
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S26lm_sensors

Best regards,
Chris


On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 00:24 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Ed Hill wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've been using APM suspend-to-RAM (S3) daily on my ThinkPad A22p (2629-
> > Y1U) for literally dozens of different kernels over three years and have
> > had few problems.  Many recent kernels have worked nicely with APM
> > including:
> >
> >   kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
> >   kernel-2.6.9-1.678_FC3
> >   kernel-2.6.9-1.667
> >
> > unfortunately, the very latest update:
> >
> >   kernel-2.6.9-1.724_FC3
> >
> > is causing my system to lock-up about 25% of the time during APM wake-
> > ups.  The lockups are complete--only a power down brings the system back
> > to a stable state.
> >
> > I've looked in bugzilla and the most similar entry is:
> >
> >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140004
> >
> > but I've had no problems with pre-2.6.9-1.724_FC3 versions which is not
> > the case for that reporter.  I've also looked in the system logs for
> > clues but theres nothing written during the failed wake-ups.
> >
> > So does anyone have any ideas about what could be wrong and/or how to
> > diagnose it?
> 
> No, but I can confirm that the problem occurs with kernel-2.6.9-1.724_FC3
> on a Thinkpad T41 (pretty consistently too).  Also did not occur with
> earlier kernels.
> 
> Feel free to Bugzilla this one.  It does sound different from #140004 to
> me.
> 
> You can experiment with settings in /etc/sysconfig/apmd, but I'm not sure
> what to suggest trying.
> 
> >
> > thanks,
> > Ed
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> 		Matthew Saltzman
> 
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

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