gnome-power-manager says that HAL was unable to hibernate right after hibernation

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

I hibernate my laptop, and when I come back I see a popup saying that HAL was unable to hibernate, and without telling me the reason why. The bug should just be in error handling, however if you need any kind of log just tell me how to get it.

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

Forgot to mention that I am using feisty to test it, and that this problem was not there in edgy with my current laptop, but I had this problem on dapper with another computer.

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

Please can someone reply here? I just want to report the problem better, the problem is still there in feisty. We have to solve all these minor annoyances to make ubuntu usable. What is the way to know why HAL "failed to hibernate" (which is not true since the laptop was correctly hibernated)?

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

Still there in gutsy, it's rare but it's still there. Many people I know experience this, it's just silly.

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[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

This does happen on many machines I've seen. I confirm this for that reason, it's not just a bug for me, I know other people reporting the issue but nobody is following it here. If it stays in incomplete status for other 8 months (it has been till now) developers will never look at it. Feel free to remove the "confirmed" status if you think it should not be like that.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

No, it should not be confirmed (you shouldn't confirm your own bugs). Please have a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status to find out how to manage the status of bugs

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Is this issue still affecting you by the way? If so, is your problem with the lack of informative message from gnome-power-manager, or is your problem with the inability yo hibernate (if you haven't reported a separate bug report about that)?

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

I can confirm this on several HP Pavilions running 8.04.1 and 8.10 alpha 5+.

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

My problem is with the lack of informative message: sometimes it even happens that the laptop correctly hibernates, but at resume the message appears. A pointer to a precise error should be provided.

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

I reported two different bugs: one is that the popup appears wrongly, after a correct hibernation cycle, the other one is that the popup is uninformative. I forgot about that. It's better to mark one a dupe of the other, because the solution is the same in both cases (I think): provide more informative error messages. Then, it will be possible to know why the system "thinks" hibernation failed when it succeded.

[greyor (greyor)]

I am also having this problem on a Dell Inspiron 1525n with Hardy 8.04.1 LTS.

My laptop hibernates just fine (using uswsusp), and resumes perfectly, although gnome-power-manager throws this error at me in user.log:

Oct 5 16:43:55 Atreides gnome-power-manager: (greyor) hibernate failed

I hope this is fixed in Intrepid. I can always click the "Don't show me this again" button, but I am hesitant to do so in case there is actually an error that occurs.

Thanks for all your hard work.

[Oliver Gerlich (ogerlich)]

Same problem here, with an EeePC 700 with Hardy (gnome-power-manager 2.22.1-1ubuntu4 and linux-image-generic 2.6.24.21.23). Suspend to disk seems to work fine, except that after resuming it displays the warning about "hibernate failed". Also, g-p-m is probably to blame for the beeping noise I get during resuming (it sounds very much like /usr/share/gnome-power-manager/gpm-suspend-failure.wav).

Attached is a syslog snippet of a "failed" hibernation. There's a line stating "gnome-power-manager: (oliver) hibernate failed"; but I don't see what exactly it complains about. Resuming worked fine from my point of view.

Any ideas how to debug this?

[Daniel Sentinelli (l-launchpad-daniels-chacal-com-ar)]

Same problem, Compaq Evo N610c with Hardy.
Popup with uninformative message, failure sound, gnome-power-manager "hibernate failed" in log.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report Vincenzo Ciancia , It has been a long time without any comment or a duplicate in this bug report and It is possible that the bug has been fixed. May you please try to reproduce it with the latest Stable Release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal and add the respective comments to the report? You can learn how to get that release at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

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