John Hubbard wrote:
Derek Broughton wrote:
It certainly isn't likely. _If_ you have a swap partition, and _if_ you
don't have anything in your grub config to send it looking for the wrong
partition, there could be a bug, but I'm betting on one of those two
problems - and that's user initiated error.
On my laptop susupend/hibernate work out of the box. But on my
desktop/server they don't work out of the box. Not working out of the
box is, for many people, the same as not working at all. It would be
nice if it always worked out of the box. If not it would be nice if
there were more how-to articles about setting up hibernate/suspend.
Hibernate/suspend don't ALWAYS work and it isn't the users fault that
they don't know enough to get it working.
Power management is the top 'idea' on the ubuntu brainstorm site. There
are still problems with power functions on Ubuntu, but people are
working on it.
btw swapon -s shows:
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda3 partition 40000176 0 -1
I have swap (I have a lot of it) and hibernate suspend don't work. Any
idea?
Here is my swap:
ted@Ubuntu:~$ swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used
Priority
/dev/sda4 partition 854272 405932
-1
ted@Ubuntu:~$
Getting close to 1 GByte -- that ought to be enough when nothing is
happenning -- that is I emptied the 4 desktops and all that was left
were the icons put in place during installation.
One big point everyone is missing is that it worked and now it
doesn't. On power up it worked but complained it did not work but it
did. Now it complains but does not work and if memory serves me right
it has this additional message that it cannot find swap. I'm an old
man so maybe I just did not see the message regarding swap until I
looked harder at the listing. But I'm pretty sure the message is new
or different as explained.
Hibernate is important for me -- probably more so than most users. On
every Linux computer I have used the outstanding feature was
STABILITY. This means (unlike the XP, 98, and 95 machines I have in my
LAN) I can count on the Linux machines to sit there day after day and
week after week and month after month and year after year but nearly
every XP and 95 machine on my LAN succumbs to t some kind of memory
erosion and eventually between the second or seventh day start
developing various application failures that all clean up with a
reboot. So the boon for me is to have a Linux machine (like Ubuntu)
that has this hibernate function so it effectively shuts down and when
powered up continues from where it left off. This is really important
to me because I have a multiplicity of things going on and I don't want
to spend half an hour putting them back together on at least 4 windows
each having several applications where the progress and/or status of
many is important. With hibernate working properly I can shutdown the
machine and give it a break. I have to be able to do this anyway
because of power grid shutdowns that often outlast my battery backups
and other reasons.
So guys, I am very distressed with Ubuntu on this issue. The problem
may very well be rooted in one of my suggestions. But quite frankly I
cannot know everything about MS OS and all the various Linux
distributions. I put my LAN together machine by machine and OS by OS
(some 15 machines) within a limited income and so I had to make
everything (Linux and MS) in the LAN both capable and interactive and
all with the same essential capabilities and I cannot afford to abandon
a unit unless it is pre-Pentium. I was counting on this Ubuntu machine
to be the heart of my LAN administration. This means I've got to get
the hibernate function to work or I have to go to a different
distribution. Calling a person crazy is defamatory but calling a
machine crazy emphasizes the frustration involved.
So far, no one has yet come up with a solution to this problem I have
encountered. But lots of people share the same kind of problem in
various ways but with the same hibernate function. Hope there is
someone out there with the necessary experience level to solve this
problem. Until there is someone I continue to call the hibernate
function "crazy" -- it makes me feel a little better.
Thanks -- Ted
