Pc not waking up after Kunbuntu add/remove

[Adam Petty]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 12/20/2009 06:00 AM, Steve wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:51:25 -0000, Adam Petty <linux at papettys.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:28:27 -0000, Adam Petty <linux at papettys.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> I just googled for simmilar log messages. It looks like what you just
>>>>>> posted is the end of a stack trace of a 'page allocation failure'
>>>>>> message. Which is likely related to the absence of your swap, and
>>>>>> could
>>>>>> be the cause of your suspend problems.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Werner
>>>>>>
>>>>> After seeing that, I created a swap file and it still locked up over
>>>>> night
>>>>>
>>>> Is that a swap file or swap partition, is it bigger then RAM size.
>>>> There’s been discussion on here before about suspend and swap files, I
>>>> believe you can’t suspend to a swap file.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>> Its a swap file about half the size of the RAM installed. It locked up
>>> before I created the swap file
>>>
>> The swap file/partition needs to be bigger than RAM size.
>>
>
> These might be of help:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq
> <quote>
> Hibernation (suspend-to-disk) The hibernation feature (suspend-to-disk)
> writes out the contents of RAM to the swap partition before turning off
> the machine. Therefore, your swap partition should be at least as big as
> your RAM size. The hibernation implementation currently used in Ubuntu,
> swsusp, needs a swap or suspend partition. It cannot use a swap file on
> an active file system.
> </quote>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Swap
>
>

I'll try adding a swap partition. I have the room. Its just this did
not happen before Kubuntu install