Re: [Suspend2-devel] Reboot problem

[Christian Hesse <mail@earthworm.de>]

On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 of January 2008, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > > Hi Christian.
> > >
> > > Christian Hesse wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > > >> Third, regarding the patch itself, I'm taking my time in working
> > > >> towards the 3.0 release. We don't have any major bugs with 3.0-rc3
> > > >> reported [...].
> > > >
> > > > Well, I think I still have a bug, though it is possibly a mainline
> > > > problem and it's not a showstopper. After a suspend/resume cycle the
> > > > reboot does not work. The system hangs with "Rebooting system" (or
> > > > similar). After that you have to hard reset the system, which is not
> > > > really a problem as filesystems have been unmounted before. Reboot
> > > > without a suspend cycle before and halt with and without suspend
> > > > cycle work without problems.
> > >
> > > Just to clarify, do you mean rebooting after writing an image, or
> > > shutting down and rebooting? It could be that there's some change to
> > > the semantics in 2.6.24 that I haven't noticed yet.
> >
> > I speak about shutting down and rebooting. I have not used reboot after
> > writing an image for a long time now. Will test what happens in this
> > case.

Reboot after writing image does not work, too. The system hangs with "Ready to 
reboot".

> > I had the issue before 2.6.24(-rc) already, thought I don't know whether
> > there were times it worked. I use it way too seldom.
>
> Well, this is similar to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6655 ,
> which definitely is a mainline problem (still pending).

Yes, that sound like my problem. I will test the patches and keep the bug 
report in focus.
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Regards,
Chris