PowerBook G4 12" - Suspend to disk doesn't work

[Truls Tangstad]

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.15

Just installed Ubuntu 6.06 running live-cd on 12" powerbook. After enabling suspend in gnome-power-manager, invoking it only fades the screen to black, then immidiately returns.

dmesg reports "Sleep mode not supported on this machine"

System information (from /proc/cpuinfo):
machine: Powerbook6,8
motherboard: PowerBook6,8 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
detected as: 287 (PowerBook G4 12")

Let me know if/how I can give any more information on the issue.

[Timothy Smith (tas50)]

Can you test this on Edgy RC so we can see if this problems still exists?

[Erik (echakr)]

Confirmed on 12" PowerBook, with up-to-date Edgy kernel as below.

/proc/version

Linux version 2.6.17-10-powerpc (root@ross) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)) #2 Fri Oct 13 16:37:41 UTC 2006 (Ubuntu 2.6.17-10.33-powerpc)

[Glyph Lefkowitz (glyph)]

Definitely happening for me as well. Same /proc/version. 2nd gen 12" G4 laptop (the one with the mini-DVI connector).

[Dan Bridges (bridges2)]

I can confirm this problem on my 12'' Powerbook G4 1.5ghz (with Nvidia Geforce card) also. I tried modifying the values in pbbuttonsd.conf from suspend_to_ram to suspend_to_disk. This has no effect. Currently if I close the lid or try to suspend from the gnome power button menu it locks the screen and asks for a password to get back into the session. If I logout and select options->hibernate it asks if I want to hibernate, I click yes, and then it does nothing.

[Sean O'Donnell (sean-odonnell)]

Can also confirm on a 12" G4 1.5ghz nvidia, same /proc/version as Erik, same dmesg message

[Gareth Fitzworthington (mapping-gp-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug has had no activity for a considerable period. This is a check to see if there is still interest in investigating this bug report.

[joenix (woutersj)]

This bug is still an issue for me. If someone can give me some directions to try to debug this, I would be glad to follow them.

[Gareth Fitzworthington (mapping-gp-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok.
Can people experiencing this bug report on this bug against more recent releases (Gutsy preferably).

This guide may help with required information:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager

Will list this against pm-utils as per recommendation in above link.

[joenix (woutersj)]

I am running Gutsy on a Powerbook G4. In Gutsy the hibernate and suspend options have disappeared from the lougout menu.

I have attached the output of gnome-power-bugreport.sh.

I have tried to hibernate using the dbus-send command given in DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager. It has no effect. I have also tried 'gnome-power-cmd.sh hibernate', which returns:
Hibernating
Error org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.NoHardwareSupport: Hibernate is not available on this computer

I also tried to do 'sudo pbbcmd hibernate' without any effect.

[joenix (woutersj)]

I have compiled the latest version of pbbuttonsd (0.8.1a), but still no luck.
I have attached the debug output of pbbuttonsd when trying to hibernate.

[Guido Günther (agx)]

I'm using two tiny scripts for hibernate in Debian, pbbuttonsd isn't needed, pm-utils can handle it:

 http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Suspend_to_Disk_with_a_Apple_Powerbook_G4_12_.html

Maybe this helps. Gnome-power-manager forbidding hibernate altogether seems to be a different issue though, maybe there's a Ubuntu specific file forbidding it in /usr/share/hal/fdi?

The system should indicate that it can hibernate via:
 power_management.can_hibernate = true
in the lshal output.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Per a decision made by the Ubuntu Kernel Team, bugs will longer be assigned to the ubuntu-kernel-team in Launchpad as part of the bug triage process. The ubuntu-kernel-team is being unassigned from this bug report. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies for more information. Thanks.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

The 18 month support period for Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 has reached its end of life -
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.10-eol . As a result, we are closing the
linux-source-2.6.22 kernel task. It would be helpful if you could test the
new Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 release and confirm if this issue remains -
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904overview. If the issue still exists with the Jaunty
release, please update this report by changing the Status of the "linux (Ubuntu)"
task from "Incomplete" to "New". Also please be sure to run the command below
which will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this
report. Thanks in advance.

apport-collect -p linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic 47994

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.
To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New".

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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