Comment 27 for bug 447192

There were some kernel updates recently and I noticed boot and shutdown behaviour changing (good, since I'm having one of those troublesome ATI Xpress 200M chips onboard.)
Gave it another whirl yesterday; chose hibernate manually from the start/stop button (excuse the winblows parlour...).
System took a while, but did go into something that looked like hibernation. This morning I switched on again and after choosing the normal (default) Ubuntu option from Grub, it came back to me exactly as I left it the night before. Hooray.

Will keep an eye out for slip ups and report back in a week or so, but for now this seems solved to me.
Thanx everbody.

cheers
Tom

uname -a
Linux tom-laptop 2.6.32-24-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 5 09:20:59 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux