Hibernation fails with "not enough free memory" error
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Recently, hibernation on my Thinkpad T61 fails now and again. All goes as usual, with HD-activity clearly indicating that the image is written to the disk. But then the process suddenly stops, and the screen displays:
PM: not enough free memory
PM:error -12 creating hibernation image
The computer needs to be forcedly powered off from this state, and boots up without restoring the next time.
My concern is not so much that hibernation fails, but that it leaves the user with no option of recovering from this state. I.e., if hibernation is not possible for whatever reason, I may want to save my work, exit my programs regularly, and shut down the computer. As things are, I have no chance: my session is simply lost.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: pm-utils 1.4.1-7
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 20 23:47:36 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pm-utils
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (112 days ago)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.