Hibernation woes

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed May 7 20:28:27 UTC 2008


Ted Hilts wrote:

> Well yes. But even if I remove every thing so that Ubuntu is not doing
> anything and none of the windows are populated it STILL complains about
> swap. I declare Hibernate (on my dual boot) as crazy!
> 
> Maybe - just maybe -- and this is just a wild guess -- but maybe due to
> the dual boot it is looking for winswap 

Of course it isn't looking for that.  What is it that makes some people jump
to not merely wild guesses but completely off the wall, insane,
speculation.  And you say Ubuntu's hibernate is crazy...

> There is no way out till a new distribution deals with this kind of
> problem.

Oh, so typical...  There _isn't_ a distribution problem.  There's a problem
with your configuration.

> DO YOU think I should "sudo pmi action hibernate" or "sudo pm-hibernate"
> or some other command line???? My version is 7-10 Gutsy.

No.  I just push my power button.  With either Gutsy or Hardy.  If I feel
like it, I can click on gui buttons, but I have _never_ used a CLI command
to hibernate an Ubuntu machine.
-- 
derek





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