Hibernate on HP notebook failes

[average_user]

Notebook HP Pavilion dv6 VT917EA. OS: Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit, kernel 2.6.31-18-generic. Trying to hibernate notebook, but it fails and just restarts.
Shows message "Swap header not found" on black screen before restart. Im using NOT swap partition, but swap file 8Gb.
Suspend not working too, just blocks screen.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Monday 25,January,2010 05:49 AM, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> You have been subscribed to a public bug:
>
> Notebook HP Pavilion dv6 VT917EA. OS: Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit, kernel 2.6.31-18-generic. Trying to hibernate notebook, but it fails and just restarts.
> Shows message "Swap header not found" on black screen before restart. Im using NOT swap partition, but swap file 8Gb.
> Suspend not working too, just blocks screen.
>
I don't think our current methods support using a swap file for hibernation, at
least not without using stuff like uswsusp, though that's quite hard to configure.

It's considerably easier to configure it for TuxOnIce, but it's not in either
the mainline kernel or the Ubuntu kernel (you need to patch it in and compile
yourself).

Just to confirm nothing else is going wrong regarding hibernation on this
system, please try using a swap partition for hibernation.

  affects ubuntu/pm-utils
  status incomplete

--
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[average_user (vasyapoopkin256)]

It seems impossible to use swap partition because this is not personal notebook, but company's notebook, so I cannot change Windows 7 partitioning on disk, and there is 3 primary partitions, created by vendor. One partition is for my Ubuntu, so I cannot add swap partition, because there can be only 4 primary partitions.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Monday 25,January,2010 05:41 PM, average_user wrote:
> It seems impossible to use swap partition because this is not personal
> notebook, but company's notebook, so I cannot change Windows 7
> partitioning on disk, and there is 3 primary partitions, created by
> vendor. One partition is for my Ubuntu, so I cannot add swap partition,
> because there can be only 4 primary partitions.
>
You can try using uswsusp, which is an unsupported manner of hibernating.

1) Install uswsusp (sudo apt-get install uswsusp)
2) Configure the resume offset as shown in
http://wiki.geteasypeasy.com/Fix:_hibernate
3) Tell pm-utils to use uswsusp (modify /etc/pm/config.d/00sleep_module to set
SLEEP_MODULE="uswsusp")

Anyway, one such bug (#252143) regarding swap files was reported before.
  duplicate 252143

--
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer