F8: Thinkpad T61 wakes up at random after hibernating

[Globe Trotter]

--- Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 21:15 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
> > So, I have been having this same problem (not always, but very frequently),
> > ever since I upgraded to 2.6.24 kernels (all three released so far).
> > 
> > I put my trusty Thinkpad T61 on pm-hibernate, and it goes down peacefully:
> > however, within a second after everything shutting down, all lights off, it
> > revvs up and starts all over again. Regardless of whether the lid is closed
> or
> > open. 
> > 
> > This does not happen always. 
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Hibernate?  First I've heard of it (but I haven't tried to hibernate
> recently--it wasn't resuming with the nVidia driver).  The current state
> of spontaneous-resume-after-suspend-to-RAM is here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=254214.
> 

thanks, matthew and frank! Not having used pm-suspend for a while, I tried it,
and it went down fine, but did not wake up properly. (I guess, you could say in
a coma?:-) but it came back with a black screen and a dash blinking cursor.)
Had to hard-shutdown a la Windoze (I am told). 

But my reference is to pm-hibernate. I tried it three times this morning, and
it went down fine twice. But woke up a second later the third time. I tried
shutting down firefox the first times, and left it on at www.washingtonpost.com
the third time. It may be firefox, it may be java, but the problem is so random
(Bernoulli distributed with p > 0.75) that it is hard to tell.

Best,
Trotter





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