[opensuse] 12.3 64-bit KDE 4 (latest) - laptop hibernation failure
Hi All, This has been working fine for a few months so I've no idea what the problem could be. Every morning, I suspend the system to disk so I can swap drives (it's a laptop) and boot to ... ahem ... Windows, which is a requirement for work. At the end of the day, I shut down, swap drives and boot back to my session. Well, this morning the progress bar stopped fairly early, at about ~10%, and it stayed there for a few minutes. Then the screen went dark for a few moments more and the hard drive was still 'working' ... then messages appeared on the screen which led me to believe it was waking back up ... which I'm fairly certain is what was happening. Those messages were identical to what I've seen when it's waking up. But it didn't wake up. It stalled in that state for a very long time. So long, in fact, that I had to give up waiting and power the system off, swap my drives so I could get on with my work. I'm hoping to get some pointers here about diagnosing what's happened and restoring the system to operation this evening. Thanks in advance for any tips or help you might offer. regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 02/12/2014 11:25 AM, Carl Hartung wrote:
Hi All,
This has been working fine for a few months so I've no idea what the problem could be. Every morning, I suspend the system to disk so I can swap drives (it's a laptop) and boot to ... ahem ... Windows, which is a requirement for work. At the end of the day, I shut down, swap drives and boot back to my session. Well, this morning the progress bar stopped fairly early, at about ~10%, and it stayed there for a few minutes. Then the screen went dark for a few moments more and the hard drive was still 'working' ... then messages appeared on the screen which led me to believe it was waking back up ... which I'm fairly certain is what was happening. Those messages were identical to what I've seen when it's waking up. But it didn't wake up. It stalled in that state for a very long time. So long, in fact, that I had to give up waiting and power the system off, swap my drives so I could get on with my work.
I'm hoping to get some pointers here about diagnosing what's happened and restoring the system to operation this evening. Thanks in advance for any tips or help you might offer.
regards,
Carl
Have you tried booting normally, or resetting the machine as it was trying to boot up, (thus abandoning the suspended session)? It could be that there simply isn't enough swap available to suspend to disk. I believe (I could be wrong) that suspend to disk tries to write to swap). -- Explain again the part about rm -rf / -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:34:19 -0800 John Andersen wrote:
Have you tried booting normally, or resetting the machine as it was trying to boot up, (thus abandoning the suspended session)?
It could be that there simply isn't enough swap available to suspend to disk. I believe (I could be wrong) that suspend to disk tries to write to swap).
Thank you for your reply, John. I'm actually running the system for work right now (the 'other OS'.) I still have a few hours before I can try anything. My first instincts are to boot the install DVD to rescue mode and manually check the partitions; to also see if there's anything interesting in the logs. Not being intimately familiar with the hibernation process, I thought it'd be a good idea to check here, first, before I unintentionally make things worse tonight. :-) regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:06:41 -0500 Carl Hartung wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:34:19 -0800 John Andersen wrote:
Have you tried booting normally, or resetting the machine as it was trying to boot up, (thus abandoning the suspended session)?
It could be that there simply isn't enough swap available to suspend to disk. I believe (I could be wrong) that suspend to disk tries to write to swap).
Thank you for your reply, John. I'm actually running the system for work right now (the 'other OS'.) I still have a few hours before I can try anything. My first instincts are to boot the install DVD to rescue mode and manually check the partitions; to also see if there's anything interesting in the logs. Not being intimately familiar with the hibernation process, I thought it'd be a good idea to check here, first, before I unintentionally make things worse tonight. :-)
I guess I was worried for nothing. As you surmised, John, the system was set to boot directly into 12.3, bypassing grub2. I'd saved all my work, so the only 'complaints' ... if you could call them that ... were Claws Mail scanning it's folders immediately upon being launched (all fine) and Firefox offering to re-open the tabs and windows I'd left open. I /did/ boot first to a Live USB stick (also openSUSE 12.3) to check the partitions, which were clean, and to copy off the relevant logs for later study. I'll probably just avoid hibernating again until I find out exactly what happened ... which is a real shame because it cut my shutdown->reboot time to a couple of minutes vs. a quarter to half an hour each direction. One more thing ... the system has 4 GB RAM and a 4401 MB swap partition. Could it be there isn't enough margin for overhead or something? Thanks again & regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-02-13 01:51, Carl Hartung wrote: If swap is already in use when you try to hibernate, it might not be enough. Otherwise it should be fine. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlL8Ll4ACgkQja8UbcUWM1yowQEAkfmS3SHJsXuWWD8j5oK8kGz2 7pJxhNyzKx6xI/ruATABAJSIjEukKoZu+dMuP5in0WVweleQkBmdG3umMoS+gwYV =bCHi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-02-13 01:51, Carl Hartung wrote:
One more thing ... the system has 4 GB RAM and a 4401 MB swap partition. Could it be there isn't enough margin for overhead or something?
If swap is already in use when you try to hibernate, it might not be enough. Otherwise it should be fine. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlL8Ll4ACgkQja8UbcUWM1yowQD9GddfH757GVcy33O7Dudr4ST5 +91zgFp/SD2r7dJrJEIA/0mG52hnILTyzIWE8R9P0vLS/EuI4bAq7f0l2LMYYX0H =f4SE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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