Re: Wow. Suspend to disk works for me in test8. :)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> > > A couple of down sides I've noticed: I have to run "hwclock --hctosys"
> > > after a resume because the time you saved at is the time the system
> > > thinks it is when you resume (ouch).  And because of that, things that
> > > should time out and renew themselves (like dhcp leases) have to be
> > > thumped manually.
> >
> > I sent fix for that yesterday... but you'd need to fix swsusp.c's
> > sysdev handling and mtrr-s => better wait.
> > 			Pavel
> 
> It's largely working for me.  My laptop's backed up regularly, so I'm not 
> risking too much data.  It reliably fails trying to suspend if I close the 
> lid, and if I don't close the lid every once in a while the power down step 
> won't power down immediately and the sucker will boot back up to the desktop 
> and inform me that my dhcp lease file is corrupt, and then suddenly power 
> down right from the desktop.  (I reboot and force a full fsck in this 
> circumstance.)

Well, this looks like ACPI problems to me. You might want to set it to
reboot and hit powerswitch manually.

> I've also had it just hang there, on both suspend and resume, for upwards of 
> 30 seconds doing nothing I can see until I start holding the power button 
> down: after ten seconds it'll hard power off, but after two or three it 
> suddenly wakes up and continues with the suspend or resume.  (Suspend usually 
> hangs in "snapshotting memory" or something like that.  Resume hangs printing 
> ........::::::::] at the end of the boot log, right before it would otherwise 
> clear the screen and rerun the end of the power down phase.

Not sure what is going on there.

I have similar hangs on omnibook xe3 when I do not load ohci driver
(but they happen during regular operation)....

									Pavel

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