Suspend and Hibernate Problem

[charmsen]

Like many others I have a suspend and hibernate problem. After suspending, the screen cuts to black and then I get a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner. There is no way to get the system back without a hard reboot.

I have a Gateway MT6705 with 2 gigs of RAM. I started using Ubuntu at 8.1 and had the problem with that version. I have now upgraded to 9.04 and still have the problem. I have tried a number of the suggested fixes with no success. Does anyone else out there use a Gateway MT6705 and been able to solve this problem? If so I would love to know how you fixed this. Thanks

Craig

[Mantrasong]

Does the problem occur while suspending, or while resuming. If it's while suspending, have you checked your swap?

Try running these commands

cat /proc/swaps
swapon -s

And post the output.

[charmsen]

Thanks for your input. Here is my Swap info:

Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda3 partition 6142968 0 -1


I find it very strange that the "used" always come up "0". Is there anyway to test if the system is actually using the swap drive?

[Mantrasong]

Sorry for taking so long to respond. The 0 used probably means that your computer never needs to use swap, as opposed to ram. How much ram do you have installed?

Also, could you go through this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7242180&postcount=4) and gather the information suggested there?

[DLG102282]

WHat version of Ubuntu are you running?

[charmsen]

I am running Ubuntu 9.04 and I have 2 gig of RAM.

[sean_worker]

I believe I have this problem too, on a Thinkpad x61.


$ swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda6 partition 4192892 2592 -1
$ uname -a
Linux ralfe 2.6.28-11-server #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 02:48:10 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
$

Suspend works fine, and while hibernate appears to succeed, when I start the machine, it does not restore.
In both cases I see a message about "deleting an empty queue" when entering the state. The message is still there, briefly, when returning from suspend.
(It doesn't work with the generic kernel either.)

[sean_worker]

actually, I think the message is more like:
"killing requests to empty queue"

[jbslaw]

I have the same problem. My Toshiba A205 suspends to a blank screen with a blinking white line cursor in the upper left portion of the screen. It is locked up hard, requiring the power button to be held 5 seconds to force the power off.

Swap is on. It isn't being used.

The logs all look normal. The pm-suspend log looks fine:

Initial commandline parameters: --quirk-s3-bios
--quirk-s3-mode
Sat Jun 6 10:37:11 CDT 2009: Running hooks for suspend.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/000record suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00auto-quirk suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: Linux gustav 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Module Size Used by
i915 65540 2
drm 96296 3 i915
binfmt_misc 16776 1
ppdev 15620 0
bridge 56340 0
stp 10500 1 bridge
bnep 20224 2
lp 17156 0
parport 42220 2 ppdev,lp
joydev 18368 0
arc4 9856 2
ecb 10752 2
snd_hda_intel 435636 5
snd_pcm_oss 46336 0
snd_mixer_oss 22656 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 82948 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 10756 0
snd_seq_oss 37760 0
rtl8187 53376 0
snd_seq_midi 14336 0
snd_rawmidi 29696 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 15104 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
mac80211 217208 1 rtl8187
snd_seq 56880 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 29704 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14988 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
eeprom_93cx6 10240 1 rtl8187
psmouse 61972 0
snd 62628 18 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,sn d_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_de vice
intel_agp 34108 1
iTCO_wdt 19108 0
cfg80211 38032 2 rtl8187,mac80211
serio_raw 13316 0
pcspkr 10496 0
soundcore 15200 1 snd
agpgart 42696 3 drm,intel_agp
iTCO_vendor_support 11652 1 iTCO_wdt
video 25360 0
input_polldev 11912 0
snd_page_alloc 16904 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
output 11008 1 video
sky2 54916 0
fbcon 46112 0
tileblit 10752 1 fbcon
font 16384 1 fbcon
bitblit 13824 1 fbcon
softcursor 9984 1 bitblit
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2052676 1003104 1049572 0 83424 557980
-/+ buffers/cache: 361700 1690976
Swap: 3903784 0 3903784
success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01PulseAudio suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/45iwlist suspend suspend: /sbin/iwlist
not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/48hid2hci suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90chvt suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95anacron suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95hdparm-apm suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/96laptop-mode suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-video suspend suspend: success.
/etc/pm/sleep.d/99laptop-mode suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend: kernel.acpi_video_flags = 3
success.
/etc/pm/sleep.d/action_wpa suspend suspend: success.
Sat Jun 6 10:37:13 CDT 2009: performing suspend

If I could get this machine to suspend and resume, Jaunty would be running perfectly.