Hibernation and edgy

[Eric Lemoine]

On 11/22/06, Tchize <tchize at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> What is the status of Hibernation on edgy?
>
> I have installed edgy on 3 desktop computer now. Each now show the 'put
> computer in hibernation' button on logout dialog. Out of those 3, only
> one (the older one) works properly when put in hibernation. (That made
> the user very happy btw has it was a "damn fast boot"). Another one just
> do a fast halt and upon reboot i see a bunch of fsck. It does not
> attempt at boot to recover from hibernation it seems. The last one does
> restore from hibernation (at least it looks like it has same behaviour
> as working one), but just after restarting screen server put everything
> in some power saving mode, mode which i can't get out, considering it
> seems my usb mouse and usb keyboard are disabled (saw some usb related
> error messages before powersaving mode). I have to manually shutdown
> computer and start it again for a normal boot.
>
> Is it a normal behaviour for hibernation to fail?

I also experienced problems with hibernate on edgy. Given that it
didn't work out-of-the-box, I tried the uswsusp package (user-space
software suspend), but that didn't help. The s2disk binary shipped in
the uswsusp package segfaults! See <https://launchpad.net/bugs/69715>.
I finally went back to swsusp2, which currently is neither in the
official kernel nor in the Ubuntu kernel. swsusp2 comes as a kernel
patch, and it works just great on my PC. If you want to give swsusp2 a
try, tell me, I'll write a procedure to have it on edgy.


-- 
Eric