Re: suspending to disk on FC6 not working

Louis Garcia
2006-09-25T19:34:30Z

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 20:43 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, 25 September 2006 19:10, Louis Garcia wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 09:16 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Monday, 25 September 2006 00:55, Louis Garcia wrote:
> > > > When I first installed FC6 test 2 suspend to disk worked on my box which
> > > > is a Dell dimension 8200 (P4). During the kernel-2.6.17-xxx updates this
> > > > has stopped working. Now kernel-2.6.18 has come out and I'm having the
> > > > same problems. I have tried to get this resolved on there mailing list
> > > > but it's not high on there things todo. I would like to debug suspend to
> > > > see what is happening. What is the proper way to do this? Has this been
> > > > discussed before? Is there a separate mailing-list for suspend?
> > >
> > > Generally you're not giving enough information to trace the problem.
> > >
> > > First, what doesn't work, the suspend to disk or the resume?
> > >
> > > Rafael
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Suspend to disk does not work. When trying to suspend, from gnome, it
> > goes normally. The power button blinks and then restarts. I'm back to
> > the screensaver lock screen but the mouse and keyboard are dead.
>
> Can you please try booting the kernel with init=/bin/bash, mount /proc,
> mount /sys, do "/sbin/swapon -a" and "echo disk > /sys/power/state"?
>
> Rafael
>
>
After the echo command the box turned off. The power button was not
blinking. I restarted it and went into grub, linux booted into bash.

When suspend was working the power button flashed and when I pressed it
the box booted right into linux and the screensaver lock screen
bypassing grub altogether.

-Louis