Problems with Hibernate

[Derek Broughton]

David Vincent wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Mark Nichols wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> While I am leery of suggesting uswsusp really solves any problems -
>> afaict, any reasonably modern machine _can_ suspend with the kernel
>> suspend, the simple solution would be to shrink your LVM and add a
>> partition for swap. I cant see a value to putting swap inside an LVM.
> 
> oh - don't mistake my suggestion of a workaround as a solution to any
> problem.  i'm not diagnosing why his other suspend/hibernate options
> don't work, just pointing out how i got that feature to work for me.

LOL - and I'm not trying to say uswsusp shouldn't work, just that I think
most modern computers should be configurable with the default hibernation. 
It may not be worth the trouble :-)  And if he wants to try your solution,
getting a swap partition uswsusp can use shouldn't be that difficult.
-- 
derek