Re: Swsusp, resume and kernel versions

Nigel Cunningham
2005-02-17T05:13:42Z

Hi Dmitry.

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 15:46, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Pavel,
>
> First of all I must say that swsusp has progressed alot and now works
> very reliably, at least for my configuration, and I use it a lot. Great
> job!
>
> But I think there is one pretty severe issue present - even if swsusp
> is not enabled kernel should check if there is an image in swap and
> erase it. Today I has somewhat unpleasant experience - after suspending
> I accidentially loaded a vendor kernel. I was in hurry and decided that
> resume just failed for some reason so I did couple of things and left
> the box running. In the evening I realized that I am running vendor kernel
> and decided to reboot into my devel. version. What I did not expect is for
> the kernel to find a valid suspend image and restore it. As you might
> imagine messed up my disk somewhat.
>
> Any chance this can be done?

One of my suspend2 users had the same thing yesterday. Unfortunately
there's no easy way for us to detect that another kernel has been
booted. The simplest solution we've found is to add commands in your
init scripts to mkswap the place where your image is stored when
rebooting. This will stop both of the implementations seeing the image
and resuming at a later time.

Regards,

Nigel
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