Recent kernels don't play well with suspend-to-disk

Paul jpb at entel.ca
Sat Nov 14 01:09:40 UTC 2009


Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 16:48 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>   
>> Kernels since kernel-PAE-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686 up to and incuding 
>> kernel-PAE-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686 seem to have a problem with suspend-
>> to-disk.
>>
>> Why do I say this? Two behaviors. First, up until the most recent 
>> kernel, I get non-fatal kernel errors that resulted in a spew of error 
>> messages to each active terminal window, sometimes accompanied by a 
>> notice that kerneloops has sent off a report. This, of course, after 
>> one or more resume-from-disk. Reboot cures the problem temporarliy. The 
>> most recent kernel failed toresume-from-disk in the boot process, 
>> freezing up with a bunch of page fault errors. (Yes, I know I shoud 
>> have copied/saved all of this). The only variable here appears to be 
>> the kernel rebooting with 2.6.30.5-43 makes the problem vanish.
>>
>> Obviosuly there's not enough here to debug the problem. The fact that 
>> its not going away suggests that the kerneloops reports are 
>> insufficient.
>>
>> So, (a) anyone else having the problem? (b) suggestions for gathering 
>> enough data to make a Bugzilla report worthwhile?
>>
>> ASUS Z84F w/ Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, 1666 MHz, INTEL 945GM chipset, 
>> AET760SD00-30DA98Z 2x1 GB DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM, Seagate Momentus 7200.1 
>> series ST910021A
>>     
>
> I have the same problem with suspend to RAM.  I am running a PAE kernel
> too.  I never use suspend to disk. 
>
> LG
>
>
>   
Is this only with PAE kernels? I have not noticed this with 64-bit
kernels on a Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop, Core 2 Duo, ATI Mobility X1400,
WD 250 GB SATA, 4GB Kingston DDR2-667.


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Paul

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