(Hardy) Hibernate crash on Dell Inspiron 1521

[teledyn]

Hibernate or sleep, Xorg will shut down leaving the blinking underline cursor, the machine is totally hung, must hold the power button to shutdown. I've set the close-lid to ignore the event, so the machine stays on and doesn't trash my session ;) but on low battery it locks up losing the session.

I thought of using those paddles they use on the medical TV shows. "CLEAR!" and ZAP -- but then thought no, maybe I should just file a bug report and let the experts handle it :)

[teledyn (garym-teledyn)]

I was just thinking, wouldn't it be cool if we could register our Linux box and upload these log files just once (with any other relevent info) and then all this would be linked to the boxes attached to our username! Definately a project for the next decade of Ubuntu ;)

[Nick Ellery (nick.ellery)]

Thanks for your report, confirming as the necessary debugging files have been attached.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test:

1) If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux-image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and test.

--or--

2) The upcoming Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 will contain this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. Alpha5 is set to be released Thursday Sept 4. Please watch http://www.ubuntu.com/testing for Alpha5 to be announced. You should then be able to test via a LiveCD.

Please let us know immediately if this newer 2.6.27 kernel resolves the bug reported here or if the issue remains. More importantly, please open a new bug report for each new bug/regression introduced by the 2.6.27 kernel and tag the bug report with 'linux-2.6.27'. Also, please specifically note if the issue does or does not appear in the 2.6.26 kernel. Thanks again, we really appreicate your help and feedback.

[Mihail (mikhail.lukin)]

there is solution that worked on my Dell Inspiron 1521.
1. go to System/Administrating/Hardware Drivers and install Wireless firmware
2. gedit fstab and replace swap partition UUID with its device path. F.e.
#UUID=8cc76dfe-0a42-4948-b3aa-2830c11b6114 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
Reboot and than try to hibernate. Maybe this will be a note for Ubuntu developers that some programs do not work correctly with device UUID's.
P.S. `uname a`=="Linux notebook 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 17:53:40 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
"

[Manoj Iyer (manjo)]

Unfortunately it seems this bug is still an issue. Can you confirm this issue exists with the most recent Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 release - http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-desktop . Please let us know your results. Thanks.

[Mihail (mikhail.lukin)]

no confirm.
since 9.04 hibernation works fine even without fglrx installed. thanks, developers!

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

With no further feedback from the original bug reporter I'm closing this bug per the previous comment. Thanks.