Re: swsusp problems with 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

Hi,

On Thursday 29 June 2006 19:15, Johan Vromans wrote:
> swsusp has problems resumeing after upgrading my Acer Travelmate
> 4001WLMi from 2.6.16 to 2.6.17. Note that I'm running a Fedora 5
> kernel, with the ATI proprietary video driver.
> On this 512Mb system, I have typically 60% of memory in use when I go
> into hibernate. This is with X, wm, Emacs, some xterms, wireless.
> 
> With 2.6.16, when I initiate a hibernate with
> 
>   echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state
> 
> I get switched back to vt1(?), the "stopping tasks" messages, and so
> on, until the system shuts down in ordinary fashion. 
> 
> With 2.6.17, when I initiate the hibernate, I get no apparent reaction
> (although the flashing disk led reveals what's going on) and the
> system shuts down.
> 
> Upon reboot, I get
> 
>   Trying to resume from /dev/hda4
>   Resuming from /dev/hda4.
>   Attempting manual resume
> 
> and then the console does a half-hearted attemtp to restore X and
> freezes. The system is alive, I can login via the network. Restarting
> the X server (from another tty, the console remains stuck) seems to
> 'cure' the problem. However, when exiting X the console stays
> connected to vt7 and needs to be put back to vt1 manually.
> 
> It seems to be a problem with the video switching out/in X. 
> When I change to a vt out of X, then suspend/resume seems to give no
> problem and after resume I can switch back to vt7 into X.
> 
> Any suggestions to cure this problem? Is it a know regression?

It is not known, thanks for the report.

Pavel, is the recent Linus' patch likely to cause this?

Rafael