I figured I would try suspend again now, since I have a fresh backup of my data (at least, as much as was recoverable after last time). Same thing happened:
* When I push the crescent-moon button, the screen fades to black, then the machine seems to turn off (power LED goes from steady-on to blinking).
* I push the machine's power button, and almost immediately get the screen I had before suspending. No BIOS-POST, no grub; just directly to the suspended state.
* Then the hard-disk LED comes on and stays on.
* From a terminal, I ran "sudo reboot". Got a dozen or so error "unrecognized command" error messages -- like the reboot executable is trying to be interpreted by a shell. Very weird. Halt does the same thing.
Any suggestions of things to try, while my system is already broken?
I figured I would try suspend again now, since I have a fresh backup of my data (at least, as much as was recoverable after last time). Same thing happened:
* When I push the crescent-moon button, the screen fades to black, then the machine seems to turn off (power LED goes from steady-on to blinking).
* I push the machine's power button, and almost immediately get the screen I had before suspending. No BIOS-POST, no grub; just directly to the suspended state.
* Then the hard-disk LED comes on and stays on.
* From a terminal, I ran "sudo reboot". Got a dozen or so error "unrecognized command" error messages -- like the reboot executable is trying to be interpreted by a shell. Very weird. Halt does the same thing.
Any suggestions of things to try, while my system is already broken?