Can only hibernate twice (Gutsy 7.10 kernel issue)

[earther]

I originally posted this problem on the Ubuntu forums at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=760026

Here are my system specs:

Antec NSK4480 Black Mid Tower Case (380watt PS)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Socket 775 Motherboard
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6750 - Socket LGA775
EVGA 8400GS Video Card (PCI-Express, 512MB)
KINGSTON DDR2 2GB PC5300 DUAL (667 MHz)
2 - 250GB WD Sata drives (recycled from old box)
Pioneer DVD_RW DVR-112D (recycled from old box)

This is a new machine (mostly). I could go into and come out of hibernation two times on Gutsy 7.10 but a third attempt ALWAYS failed. Google found two mentions of this bug but no solutions.

Today I did a some serious troubleshooting. Started with a clean install of Gutsy 7.10 on a spare drive. Tested both before and after updates. Same problem. Couldn't go into hibernation for a third time.

Next, I tried loading a newer kernel from Hardy - 2.6.24-16 - on the Gutsy clean install as per this thread - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=646755 and voila, it worked! I was able to hibernate repeatedly.

I didn't do a clean install of Hardy but assume it would also work since the kernel fixed the problem.

When I replaced my working drive and tried the kernel upgrade to Hardy 2.6.24-16-generic. it also worked (took two tries though).

IT LOOKS LIKE THIS IS A BUG BETWEEN THE GUTSY KERNEL AND MY NEWER HARDWARE CONFIGURATION! Since Gutsy will be supported for some time you might want to look into fixing the glitch as users will likely be upgrading their hardware in the coming months.

[Nick Ellery (nick.ellery)]

Bug assigned to the Ubuntu-kernel-acpi team

[earther (earther)]

This is the first full day that I have been hibernating Gutsy on the Hardy kernel. After maybe 5 or 6 hibernations, it did not wake up properly. There was no login box and nothing would make it appear. Had to shutdown and reboot.

I will try to track the failures and report back if they always occur after the same number of hibernations.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi earther,

The Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS release actually was announced a few weeks ago. Just curious why you haven't chosen to fully upgrade to Hardy yet? I'd be curious if this issue still exists on a fully installed Hardy system. If it does, can you please include the following information as required by the kernel team - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies . Please be sure to attach each file separately.

Additionally, I'm removing the ubuntu-kernel-acpi team from being assigned as kernel bugs should have both the status and importance set as well as the required debugging information before being assigned to the kernel team.

Also, unfortunately against the 2.6.22 Gutsy kernel this does not qualify for a stable release update - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates . I'll keep this report open against the Hardy kernel for now, but please report back if this still exists on a full Hardy install. Thanks.

[earther (earther)]

I have not upgraded because an application that I rely on does not work properly on the version of Wine available for Hardy - 0.9.60. In fact, even on Gutsy I had to roll back to wine-0.9.58. Until there is a version of Wine that works for me, I'm going to have to stay on Gutsy with the Hardy kernel which seems to have solved the hibernation issue.

I have Hardy installed on Virtual Box and also a spare machine. Unfortunately, I can't test hibernation from either of those installs but am able to see how everything else works.

One other comment about Hardy . . . the inclusion of FF Beta 3 was also a problem as it breaks too many addons. I had to rollback to FF 2x to get them to work.

Since Gutsy is working fine why should I fix it? When I do finally move to Hardy, I'll report back to this thread but that may be several months from now.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Thanks for the response. If you find that running Gutsy with the Hardy kernel works for you feel free to continue using that. It would appear that this is resolved for Hardy though. I'll go ahead and mark it "Fix Released" against Hardy. If you do notice any regressions after you've fully upgraded, please feel free to reopen this report (ie set the Status from "Fix Released" back to "New"). Thanks.

[Richard (rd1)]

I've had the same issue on a similar spec system using Gutsy with 2.6.22-14. I installed the Hardy kernel 2.6.24-16 from backports (sam,e thread as linked above) and it has now fixed this issue - had to do some other tweaks to get hibernate working (to do with 7900GS, setting no POST on resume in /etc/default/acpi-support, and enabling NvAGP in xorg.conf), but it is now hibernating OK.

System spec in case it helps someone:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8200
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R motherboard
NVidia 7900GS