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    Question Cannot suspend with SD card inserted - Dell Mini 9

    Symptom:

    With an SD card inserted, the machine will not suspend. On a reboot, with SD card inserted, suspend works once. After that, the computer will not suspend, or shutdown, even if I physically remove the SD card, I still have to manually hard boot the machine. I have also tried using software eject in nautilus, which does not help the issue.

    This is reproducible every single time using the above scenario.

    When the issue occurs, the machine looks as if it is going to suspend, in that the screen goes black as expected, but it just hangs at the cursor and does nothing. Usually if I press a key, the login screen comes back, but if I shutdown, I cannot get the login screen to reappear. Opening a terminal via alt+F2 and restarting gnome-session does not work.

    If the SD card is not inserted upon reboot, the machine suspends and shuts down just fine, every single time.

    Steps:

    1. With SD card inserted, Power on machine
    2. Log in
    3. Wait for wireless to connect/services to start
    4. Click user login menu, select suspend
    5. After machine suspends, wake it back up
    6. Log back in
    7. Suspend machine again

    Result: After step 7, the screen goes black, but the machine does not appear to suspend (light on the front of the system does not blink. Pressing a key usually brings the login screen back. If you attempt to suspend again, even if you remove the SD card, it will not suspend. If step 7 is replaced with Shutdown/Restart machine, the machine will not shutdown or restart, and only a black screen with a blinking cursor is shown.

    Notes:
    After using tail to follow /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog it appears that there is a GPF occurring, and some message about the kernel.


    Config:

    Dell Mini 9, 1GB ram, 8GB SSD, 16GB SDHC 6X, Ubuntu 8.10 (installed updates)


    I don't really know enough about Linux to debug these. Does anyone have a solution/fix for this, or have any advice on how I can proceed to try and debug this?

    Thanks much,

    -Freq

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    Re: Cannot suspend with SD card inserted - Dell Mini 9

    Use less butter.

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    Re: Cannot suspend with SD card inserted - Dell Mini 9

    anyone?




    -Freq

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    Re: Cannot suspend with SD card inserted - Dell Mini 9

    sudo gedit /usr/sbin/pm-suspend

    go to the fist line which is not bashed (#), which is:

    export STASHNAME=pm-suspend

    just before this line, you add

    umount /dev/mmcblk*

    works with Karmic and Lucid

    Hopes it helps

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    Re: Cannot suspend with SD card inserted - Dell Mini 9

    There is a fairly well-documented issue with the Acer Aspire One SDHC card where suspending or hibernating the machine apparently trashes the filesystem on the card.

    Please can you advise whether the code shown will fix that issue?

    Thanks

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    Re: Cannot suspend with SD card inserted - Dell Mini 9

    Well I can't confirm it myself but see here (post from scross01)
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...50#post9269450

    I'll try to do it on my wife's aspire one later in the week but according to our friend it works

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    Re: Cannot suspend with SD card inserted - Dell Mini 9

    Thanks, look forward to hearing

    Like you, the netbook belongs to my wife so I have been reluctant to try it, as I am sure she would be thrilled - I've never found a way to recover the situation other than to reinstall. To add to this, like many I'm sure, the L\H SD card is the home partition.

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    Re: Cannot suspend with SD card inserted - Dell Mini 9

    Having re-read the thread you linked to, it would appear that the fix does not sort things out where the home directory is on the SDHC card.

    In a way I wish I had bought her the HDD version now, but suspect that I would not have been permitted to wipe windows.

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    Re: Cannot suspend with SD card inserted - Dell Mini 9

    Wait, I doubt your (her) home partition is on her SDHC card. The guy on the other thread owns a Dell mini 9 with a very small SSD disk (4G) so he had to put his home partition on his SDHC card but it's not a very common way to install an operating system.
    Don't you mistake SDHC for SSD? (no offence)
    Acer didn't sell Aspire one with such small SSD, so I can't see a reason why you put the home partition on the SDHC (of course you do what you want )

    Am I clear? English is not my first language as you had realize by yourself
    Last edited by yooy; May 12th, 2010 at 03:06 PM.

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    Re: Cannot suspend with SD card inserted - Dell Mini 9

    I'm not sure I got it : why would you not have been permitted to wipe windows on the HDD version of the Aspire One? I'm a little but confused here

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