Problem with hibernation

kalinix calin.kalinix.cosma at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 05:45:14 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 23:35 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> My laptop has ceased hibernating.
> When I click on f=>Leave=>Hibernate
> the sleep-moon starts flashing
> and the small hyphen-like symbol on the top left comes on as usual,
> but as far as I can see nothing is written to disk.
> 
> At this point it becomes impossible to communicate with the machine.
> Ctrl-Alt-F2 does bring on a text window,
> with a login: request,
> but if I enter my username and press Return
> I am not asked for a password.
> Whatever I type appears on the screen,
> but with no effect.
> 
> I tried stopping the NetworkManager and openvpn services
> which seemed to me the most likely causes of the problem,
> but that had no effect.
> 
> I wonder if anyone has had the same problem?
> And if so, whether there is a solution?
> 
> I'm running the current kernel,
> but I tried the last 2 kernels without effect.
> 
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  
> e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
> 


I saw this (on somewhat similar hw - a T60) when I have an secondary hdd
in ultrabay (not all the times though) or when I have an nfs mount
(always).



HTH,

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Calin

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