how to debug broken hibernate?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 17:35 +0200, Colin Brace wrote:
> I just installed Dapper on an Acer Aspire 5500Z laptop. Suspend works
> fine, but alas hibernate does not; the system shuts down, but when I
> power up again, the laptop boots anew. Any ideas on how to pinpoint
> what is going wrong?


When it does this on my machine, it's usually after there is a kernel
update, which overwrite GRUB's menu.lst and removes the
"resume=/dev/foo" parameter that you have to add by hand to tell the
kernel where is the swap partition where the session data has been
stored when you hibernated.


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Vince