Tested 1.0.0-0ubuntu4~18.10.0 on Cosmic: ubuntu@ip-172-31-11-18:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall ec2-hibinit-agent Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/10.0 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed (Reading database ... 66281 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../ec2-hibinit-agent_1.0.0-0ubuntu4~18.10.0_all.deb ... Unpacking ec2-hibinit-agent (1.0.0-0ubuntu4~18.10.0) over (1.0.0-0ubuntu4~18.10.0) ... Setting up ec2-hibinit-agent (1.0.0-0ubuntu4~18.10.0) ... ubuntu@ip-172-31-11-18:~$ service hibinit-agent status ● hibinit-agent.service - EC2 instance hibernation setup agent Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/hibinit-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2019-03-12 14:24:20 UTC; 31s ago Docs: file:/usr/share/doc/ec2-hibinit-agent/README Mar 12 14:24:20 ip-172-31-11-18 /hibinit-agent[2972]: Running: swapoff /swap-hibinit Mar 12 14:24:20 ip-172-31-11-18 hibinit-agent[2972]: Effective config: {'log_to_syslog': True, 'log_to_stderr': True, 'mkswap': 'mkswap {swapfile}', 'swapon': 'swapon {swapfi le}', 'swapoff': 'swapoff {swapfile}', 'touch_swap': False, 'grub_update': True, 'swap_percentage': 100, 'swap_mb': 4000} Mar 12 14:24:20 ip-172-31-11-18 hibinit-agent[2972]: Will check if swap is at least: 4000 megabytes Mar 12 14:24:20 ip-172-31-11-18 hibinit-agent[2972]: There's sufficient swap available (have 4194304000, need 4194304000) Mar 12 14:24:20 ip-172-31-11-18 hibinit-agent[2972]: Running: swapon /swap-hibinit Mar 12 14:24:20 ip-172-31-11-18 hibinit-agent[2972]: Updating the kernel offset for the swapfile: /swap-hibinit Mar 12 14:24:20 ip-172-31-11-18 hibinit-agent[2972]: Setting swap device to 51713 with offset 245760 Mar 12 14:24:20 ip-172-31-11-18 hibinit-agent[2972]: Done updating the swap offset. Turning swapoff Mar 12 14:24:20 ip-172-31-11-18 hibinit-agent[2972]: Running: swapoff /swap-hibinit Mar 12 14:24:20 ip-172-31-11-18 systemd[1]: Started EC2 instance hibernation setup agent. ubuntu@ip-172-31-11-18:~$ sudo apt purge ec2-hibinit-agent Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ec2-hibinit-agent* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 59.4 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 66281 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ec2-hibinit-agent (1.0.0-0ubuntu4~18.10.0) ... (Reading database ... 66268 files and directories currently installed.) Purging configuration files for ec2-hibinit-agent (1.0.0-0ubuntu4~18.10.0) ... Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub' Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/40-force-partuuid.cfg' Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/50-cloudimg-settings.cfg' Generating grub configuration file ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-1011-aws Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-1011-aws Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-1008-aws Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-1008-aws done ubuntu@ip-172-31-11-18:~$ ls -alh /etc/default/grub.d/ total 16K drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Mar 12 14:25 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Mar 12 11:51 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 Feb 12 18:40 40-force-partuuid.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 434 Feb 12 18:45 50-cloudimg-settings.cfg ubuntu@ip-172-31-11-18:~$ ls / bin boot dev etc home initrd.img initrd.img.old lib lib64 lost+found media mnt opt proc root run sbin snap srv sys tmp usr var vmlinuz vmlinuz.old ubuntu@ip-172-31-11-18:~$ grep resume /boot/grub/grub.cfg ubuntu@ip-172-31-11-18:~$ The first hibernation/resume cycle succeeded, but the second failed. The failure seems do be due to a kernel issue since the ACPI events are not seen after the resume. Since the package seems to be working well I'm marking the verification as successful.