Failure to restart after Hibernatiion

[Phillip Susi]

Try pressing ctrl-alt-F1 to switch to a text terminal, then alt-F7 to 
switch back to X.  Sometimes the video card just needs refreshed because 
the bios or vbetool doesn't correctly restore the state.

Upayavira wrote:
> I upgraded from Hoary to Breezy. In the process, I lost the ability to
> hibernate my Dell Precision M60 notebook.
> 
> The machine starts up, but doesn't start X. I can log in via SSH, and I
> saw the following in a PS listing:
> 
> root     10802  0.0  0.0   1956   784 ?        Ss   11:58   0:00
> /usr/sbin/acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s /var/run/acpid.socket
> root     10807  0.0  0.0   4032     8 ?        Ss   11:58   0:00
> /bin/bash /usr/sbin/pmi action hibernate
> root     10817  0.1  0.0   4040   776 ?        S    11:58   0:01
> /bin/bash /etc/acpi/hibernate.sh force
> root     11252  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:00   0:00 [ipw2200/0]
> root     11504  0.0  0.0   3428   944 ?        S    12:00   0:00 su
> upayavira -c (xscreensaver-command -deactivate)
> 1000     11506  0.0  0.0   4300  1512 ?        S    12:00   0:00 bash -c
> (xscreensaver-command -deactivate)
> 1000     11507  0.0  0.0   3468   944 ?        S    12:00   0:00
> xscreensaver-command -deactivate
> postfix  11716  0.0  0.0   4276  1444 ?        S    12:00   0:00 pickup
> -l -t fifo -u -c
> postfix  11717  0.0  0.0   4312  1472 ?        S    12:00   0:00 qmgr -l
> -t fifo -u -c
> root     12175  0.0  0.0   3836  1388 ?        S    12:03   0:00 /bin/sh
> /etc/acpi/power.sh
> root     12193  0.0  0.0   2960   812 ?        S    12:03   0:00 xset
> dpms 0 0 600
> 
> 
> It seems that something is hanging in the process of starting X. Anyone
> able to explain how to interpret the above, or give me pointers as to
> how to debug this further?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Upayavira
>