Hibernate fails after upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10

[Kabeer Ahmed]

After upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10, the hibernate fails. The error that is seen on the screen is that: Not enough free swap. But I am pretty sure that it is not swap space. I have about 10GB assigned to my swap space and it is hardly ever used. Further the same configuration used to work fine with 11.04. After the upgrade this feature has gone broke.

The model of the laptop is Lenovo W510. Earlier in Ubuntu 11.04 the hibernate used to fail and checking the forums I found that it required a bios update from Lenovo. After the bios update, the hibernate worked all through without issues till the upgrade to 11.10. Please advise if any further information would help you better and I could upload any system logs if any following the procedure you may state.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: hibernate (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 23 14:19:21 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: hibernate
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (7 days ago)

[Kabeer Ahmed (smdahmed)]

Now I have another weird issue. Not able to see if a fix would come along, I thought of something on the internet. I did follow the instructions in http://www.ubuntugeek.com/fix-for-suspend-and-hibernation-problem-for-laptops.html
 and installed uswsusp. With that the computer would suspend but would never resume when I power it on again.

I then removed it.

Then I tried the instructions in website: http://thecodecentral.com/2011/01/18/fix-ubuntu-10-10-suspendhibernate-not-working-bug. This too didnt work and I subsequently removed this script too.

Currently I have a system where hibernate also causes the system to kind of shut down. When I press hibernate, it seems to go in kind of hibernate. But when I power up, the system comes up as if being powered on after a shut down.

And now I kind of feel I am stuck.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Christian Brickhouse (chrisbrick)]

I have the same problem except on a 32-bit system. I have about 3GB of swap which is about 3x larger than the amount of RAM I have. It only started after upgrading to 11.10.

[Darkwarfighter (overlord)]

Same problem here on my Samsung NC10; after hibernating the computer, error "Not enough swap" appears twice then login password is been requested.
Hibernation worked fine until I upgraded to 11.10.
I noticed that also Xubuntu 11.10 is affected by this bug.

[yo (yomoyourmind)]

me too!

hi,
mine is hp pavilion dv6, i5, 4gb ram, hibernate fails, no error message!
all lights on keyboard remain on, screen goes blank, when i move the mouse, the login screen appears asking for login password.
suspend works without any issues.

thank you!

[Herve Boutin (rvboutin9)]

Hi,
Same for me, Toshiba M40X-141, hibernate or supend function does not work, no error message. The PC does go to "sleep" but impossible to resume, I got a greenish screen and nothing more on resume. I have to hard reboot.
Cheers,
Rv