[Dell Inc. XPS M1530] suspend/resume failure

[Scott Abbey]

Fully updated karmic system. Fails to suspend. The system blanks the screen and there's some hard drive activity, but the backlight stays on, and the power light never begins to fade in and out (as it would if suspended). This worked just fine in jaunty. I tried it with and without the nvidia kernel modules installed. This report is from the install without the nvidia modules.

ProblemType: KernelOops
Annotation: This occured during a previous suspend and prevented it from resuming properly.
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: scott 1672 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfebfc000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9228'
   Components : 'HDA:83847616,1028022e,00100201'
   Controls : 29
   Simple ctrls : 19
Date: Wed Oct 14 06:37:49 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apportcheckresume
Failure: suspend/resume
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=81b9ba17-b091-43de-9a2f-e253087b05df
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS M1530
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic 2.6.31-14.46
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=ce1950c2-74d2-43df-882b-33c0d02ec4c7 ro quiet splash
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/apportcheckresume
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.46-generic
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.22
SourcePackage: linux
Tags: resume suspend
Title: [Dell Inc. XPS M1530] suspend/resume failure
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 07/14/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A09
dmi.board.name: 0D501F
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA09:bd07/14/2008:svnDellInc.:pnXPSM1530:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0D501F:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: XPS M1530
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Henry Gomersall (hgomersall)]

I have a similar problem in terms of symptoms on a Dell Inspiron 9400, also running Karmic.

In my case, the suspend only fails the _second_ time I attempt it after a fresh boot. The first time seems to suspend and resume fine (although obviously something is different). It began to occur after the last kernel upgrade (although it may be related to one of the other many packages that also upgraded), so its only been happening the last couple of days.

Scott, is this the same with you? If not i'll open a new bug report.

[Scott Abbey (malakhi)]

@Henry: No, this failure occurs each and every time after installation. That would be a separate bug.

It seems that this problem only occurs on Ubuntu (the Gnome version). Kubuntu suspends and resumes just fine, so this probably isn't a kernel problem. I'm not sure where the differences start between the two though.

[Scott Abbey (malakhi)]

The problem also occurs when hibernating.

[Philippe (pcreux)]

As Henry, my laptop suspends fine the first time after a fresh boot but fails the second time.

[Scott Abbey (malakhi)]

This problem still occurs in the final release. It occurs in both the 32 and 64 bit releases.

@Philippe: your problem is a separate bug.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Scott,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 451162

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Scott Abbey (malakhi)]

Actually, it is still present, but I fixed it myself. I forgot I had filed this bug or I would have posted the solution here. The problem is caused by the SD card reader built into the laptop. I keep a memory card in it pretty much all the time. For some reason the reader prevents the laptop from sleeping completely. So, I just have it unload the kernel module for the reader prior to suspend and reload it upon resume. This is done by creating (or editing) a file called 10modules in /etc/pm/config.d to contain the following

    SUSPEND_MODULES="sdhci_pci sdhci mmc_block mmc_core"

Simple as that. It still has the annoying problem of remounting your SD card every time you reboot which causes a new Nautilus window to pop up, but I've learned to deal with it.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu development release http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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