Problems with Hibernate

[David Vincent]

Mark Nichols wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/25/07, *David Vincent* <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca 
> <mailto:dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca>> wrote:
> 
>     ubuntu prole wrote:
>      > Greetings,
>      >
>      > When I suspend my workstation (details in the signature) using the
>      > hibernate feature I am unable to "wake" it later.  Keyboard and mouse
>      > inputs are ignored.  I am forced to reboot the machine.  A quick
>     search
>      > revealed several postings elsewhere that talk of problems waking
>     7.10;
>      > but none that included viable help. Are there any workarounds or
>      > suggestions as to what to try?
>      >
>      > I installed xserver-xgl and compizconfig-settings-manager
>     yesterday, and
>      > was using the 'Extra' visual effects, which seemed to be using a
>      > tremendous amount of CPU even when the machine was sleeping.  I'd
>     like
>      > to use hibernate to quiesce the machine when it isn't going to be
>     in use
>      > for a while.  I can turn the Visual Effects off, but I'd rather keep
>      > them and be able to use hibernate if at all possible.
> 
>     I switched to uswsusp and used this page to help me:
> 
>     http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/02/11/fixing-software-suspend-hibernate-with-uswsusp-in-ubuntu-feisty-and-edgy/
> 
>     I had to do this on Feisty and this worked great.
> 
>     Try first installing the uswsusp package and then try a "sudo
>     s2disk" in
>     a terminal.
> 
>     -d
> 
> 
> I am running in LVM, so my swap space is actually 
> /dev/mapper/lvmvolume-swap.  When I installed uswsusp I got an error 
> message saying that a valid swap space could not be found.  Unless there 
> is some way to confiure uswsusp to use my LVM managed swap space, I 
> don't think this solution is going to work for me.

I had that problem on one machine - I think it is because my swap is 
less than 512mb and my RAM is 1gb so even with compression it won't fit. 
  I haven't solved that issue yet - could you be having the same one?

I've also never used LVM so I don't know any gotchas with uswsusp there.

-d