Is Hibernate going to be fixed any time soon?

[Manfred Lotz]

On Sat, 2 May 2015 07:33:31 -0500
Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:

> > The funny thing is that for me hibernation worked for quite a long
> > time without resume=.
> 
> Hibernation stopped working out of the box from F20. If you upgraded
> from F19 instead of a new install (to F20/21), then you would not
> have noticed anything. This was my experience.
> 

I have started F20 a year ago or so and till some time this year
hibernation worked fine for me. I need it sometimet because the battery
of my laptop isn't the best any longer.


> > In your case the question indeed is if hibernation is supported when
> > having 2 swap devices.
> > 
> > Did hibernation work with your setup (having 2 swap devices)  at
> > some time in the past? If yes then we know it should be possible.
> > 
> > Could you try out hibernation when having one swap device only?
> > If this works we would know that in principal hibernation isn't
> > broken.
> > 
> 
> Actually, I can't speak for this unusual situation, but in principle,
> hibernation appears to have become buggy. I strongly suspect that
> with both Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian taken it out by default, there is
> no more enough people trying it out, especially on newer hardware.
> (That is where all my issues are.) If something does not work out of
> the box, many will simply stop using the feature rather than go
> through the complicated steps (you have to know about it in the first
> place) and then see if it works.
> 
> Which is why I think that adding these additional steps on to
> something that used to work out of the box is a bad idea, especially
> because Fedora (in particular) tries to be a testbed for a stabler
> system.
> 

I even don't know if adding a resume statement is something which
should be done automatically.

-- 
Manfred