Cannot hibernate : systemd-sleep[22332]: Failed to write 'disk' to /sys/power/state: Cannot allocate memory

[Yann Salmon]

Roughly every other time, hibernating (via systemctl hibernate) fails : it begins then I get back to lightdm prompt.

journalctl shows the lines

systemd[1]: Starting Hibernate...
systemd-sleep[22333]: Spawned /lib/systemd/system-sleep/10_unattended-upgrades-hibernate as 22334.
systemd-sleep[22333]: Spawned /lib/systemd/system-sleep/hdparm as 22335.
systemd-sleep[22333]: Spawned /lib/systemd/system-sleep/10_grub-common as 22336.
systemd-sleep[22333]: Spawned /lib/systemd/system-sleep/wpasupplicant as 22337.
systemd-sleep[22333]: Spawned /lib/systemd/system-sleep/tuxonice as 22338.
systemd-sleep[22333]: Spawned /lib/systemd/system-sleep/back_to_ram as 22339.
systemd-sleep[22333]: /lib/systemd/system-sleep/10_unattended-upgrades-hibernate succeeded.
systemd-sleep[22333]: /lib/systemd/system-sleep/back_to_ram succeeded.
systemd-sleep[22333]: /lib/systemd/system-sleep/hdparm succeeded.
systemd-sleep[22333]: /lib/systemd/system-sleep/tuxonice succeeded.
systemd-sleep[22333]: /lib/systemd/system-sleep/10_grub-common succeeded.
systemd-sleep[22333]: /lib/systemd/system-sleep/wpasupplicant succeeded.
systemd-sleep[22332]: system-sleep succeeded.
systemd-sleep[22332]: Suspending system...
kernel: PM: hibernation entry
kernel: PM: Syncing filesystems ...
kernel: PM: done.
kernel: Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done.
kernel: OOM killer disabled.
kernel: PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff]
kernel: PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x00058000-0x00058fff]
kernel: PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x0009e000-0x000fffff]
kernel: PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0xabbf4000-0xabbf5fff]
kernel: PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0xbb835000-0xbc5fefff]
kernel: PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0xbc600000-0xffffffff]
kernel: PM: Basic memory bitmaps created
kernel: PM: Preallocating image memory...
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:16: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:15: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:14: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:13: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:12: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:11: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:10: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:0f: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:0e: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:0d: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:0c: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:0b: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:0a: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:09: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:08: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:07: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:06: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:05: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:04: Turning OFF
kernel: acpi LNXPOWER:03: Turning OFF
kernel: PM: Basic memory bitmaps freed
kernel: OOM killer enabled.
kernel: Restarting tasks ... done.
kernel: video LNXVIDEO:00: Restoring backlight state
kernel: PM: hibernation exit
whoopsie[1377]: [00:31:31] Cannot reach: https://daisy.ubuntu.com
whoopsie[1377]: [00:31:31] Cannot reach: https://daisy.ubuntu.com
systemd-sleep[22332]: Failed to write 'disk' to /sys/power/state: Cannot allocate memory
acpid[1079]: client 1225[0:0] has disconnected
systemd[1]: systemd-hibernate.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
acpid[1079]: client connected from 1225[0:0]
systemd[1]: Failed to start Hibernate.
acpid[1079]: 1 client rule loaded
systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Hibernate.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: systemd 229-4ubuntu21.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-22.24~16.04.1-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Jun 2 00:34:35 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-07 (632 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Precision Tower 3620
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-22-generic root=UUID=6ebb7e70-29f5-4ddf-a1a1-8cc58113961a ro nomodeset
SourcePackage: systemd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/31/2018
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2.8.1
dmi.board.name: 09WH54
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr2.8.1:bd01/31/2018:svnDellInc.:pnPrecisionTower3620:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn09WH54:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.family: Precision
dmi.product.name: Precision Tower 3620
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
mtime.conffile..etc.systemd.journald.conf: 2018-03-12T17:55:59.620118

[Kai-Heng Feng (kaihengfeng)]

This is more likely to be a kernel bug.

[Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot)]

This change was made by a bot.

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

please reopen if this is still an issue