[Edgy] Normal boot (no resume) when starting computer after hibernation

[Jan Mynarik]

I manage to succesfully hibernate my notebook but when I turn it on, it normally boots with no resume. To resume I needed to manually add resume=/dev/sda5 (my swap partition) in grub menu (after power-on).

I suspect this may be a problem with upgrade from dapper. Any suggestions?

[Gabriel Ambuehl (gabriel-ambuehl)]

This happens on my Toshiba Portege M200 as well. I did a clean install, not upgrade from Dapper.

I'm using linux-image-2.6.17-10-386 (as the generic one doesnt seem to work with nvidia-glx kernel modules).

[Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik)]

Is anybody looking at this? This bug makes hibernation unusable. Thanks.

[tonfa (bboissin)]

if you don't have /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume you have to create it with the right value.

[Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik)]

Thanks for the hint, /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume was really missing. Creating it (with right information - RESUME=UUID=<id of my swap partition from fstab>) didn't help though, still getting normal boot.

[Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik)]

I probably forgot to rebuild initramfs, I did so with 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure initramfs-tools' but now I can't even suspend or hibernate (actually, I can't even halt or restart the computer, it just stops, the last message is from NetworkManager shutdown).

[Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik)]

All resolved here!

Problem with shutdown/restart/suspend was in fact problem with starting/stopping mysql (boot process didn't finish due to mysql start problems; it was caused by corrupted mysql files that got bad during normal boot after hibernation).

So creation of conf.d/resume DID help. I can hibernate/resume perfectly now.

P.S. Problem with conf.d/resume could be problem even in freshly installed edgy, see https://launchpad.net/bugs/67932

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

Gabriel, Is the Jan work can be applied on your computer and does it solve your problem ? If yes, we can close this bug, as the problem with conf.d/resume is part of another bug report.

[Gabriel Ambuehl (gabriel-ambuehl)]

I'm not sure, with the latest kernels my machine won't even hibernate reliably anymore so I can't really test :(

[Gabriel Ambuehl (gabriel-ambuehl)]

Actually, I got my laptop to suspend today and it restarted perfectly. So
configuring initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume correctly does fix the problem.

[Jan Mynarik (jan-mynarik)]

One more thing, I think that the check for existing /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume (and its possible automatic generation) should be moved to initramfs-tools' postinst. This way it would mean fixing this problem with upgrade and thus no need for manual intervention. Although this is probably bug for initramfs-tools.

[tonfa (bboissin)]

this bug should probably be marked as dup from 66637

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

to tonfa : If there is a dupe, the reference bug is the more documented, or, if you can't choose between it, the one which has the smallest number (here 65798<66637).

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

Scott, what do you think of that and of the workaround which is suggested ? Is there really acpi-support related ?