hibernate key does not work

[davidwillis]

Hi,

Sorry to bug you again, I just have one small issue I need fixed if possible. I have a key on my keyboard that should hibernate the system. But when I press it nothing happens. This is not a big deal, except this computer it for my kids, and it is better if they can just press that button when they are done rather than shutting down or finding the option in the menu.

Thanks

[davidwillis]

Actually I just tested using the menu, and hibernate just turns the screen black for a second then comes right back, and suspend essentially just shuts the computer off. No keys bring it back, and pressing the power button just turns the computer on (boots back up as if it was off).

[davidwillis]

I think the problem I am seeing is caused because I did not setup a big enough swap partition. I went through the install process too fast, and only set it to 1 GB. I am going to increase it to 5 and see if that helps.

[aurlaent]

you can have a look at /var/log/pm-suspend.log to see if there are error messages there.

[davidwillis]

I couldn't re-size my partitions, so I am doing a re-install now. I am at work now, but will check it out when I get home.

[davidwillis]

I now have a 7G swap partition, have added resume=/dev/sda2 to the append in lilo.conf (then ran lilo and rebooted).

But it will not resume, it just powers off (with my other distrobutions, it would leave the power led blinking when I would suspend.

I don't know what I am looking for in the logs, but here it is.

Initial commandline parameters:
Sun Aug 4 15:03:57 MDT 2013: Running hooks for suspend.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend:
Linux darkstar 3.2.45-smp #2 SMP Fri May 31 16:57:40 CDT 2013 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4400 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Module Size Used by
snd_seq_dummy 1119 0
snd_seq_oss 25020 0
snd_seq_midi_event 4568 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 41624 5 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy
snd_seq_device 4276 3 snd_seq,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy
snd_pcm_oss 33318 0
snd_mixer_oss 13144 2 snd_pcm_oss
bnep 8561 2
ipv6 238973 24
bluetooth 133100 7 bnep
rfkill 12432 2 bluetooth
lp 7119 0
fuse 58347 3
i915 377136 2
video 10017 1 i915
drm_kms_helper 22873 1 i915
drm 151284 3 drm_kms_helper,i915
i2c_algo_bit 4543 1 i915
ppdev 4710 0
processor 22956 0
e100 27073 0
mii 3335 1 e100
button 3633 1 i915
evdev 7314 5
firewire_ohci 28402 0
firewire_core 43529 1 firewire_ohci
usbhid 31213 0
hid 66141 1 usbhid
thermal_sys 12122 2 processor,video
intel_agp 8712 1 i915
intel_gtt 11603 3 intel_agp,i915
agpgart 21927 3 intel_gtt,intel_agp,drm
hwmon 1033 1 thermal_sys
parport_pc 16691 1
parport 26191 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
i2c_i801 7016 0
i2c_core 16485 5 i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit,drm,drm_kms_helper,i915
snd_hda_codec_idt 47698 1
snd_hda_intel 19471 2
snd_hda_codec 70473 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_idt
snd_hwdep 4898 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 59244 3 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 5893 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 14830 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 43944 13 snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm_oss,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_seq_oss
soundcore 4634 2 snd
loop 14683 0
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3082500 259984 2822516 0 984 121868
-/+ buffers/cache: 137132 2945368
Swap: 7386576 0 7386576

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01grub suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01grub suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth-generic suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth-generic: line 7: rfkill: command not found

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth-generic suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth-ibm suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth-ibm suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend:
Having NetworkManager put all interaces to sleep...Done.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55wicd suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55wicd suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend:

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend:
Kernel modesetting video driver detected, not using quirks.

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend: success.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend:
kernel.acpi_video_flags = 0

/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend: success.
Sun Aug 4 15:03:58 MDT 2013: performing suspend

[aurlaent]

I can't see anything going wrong there, but it's not waking up.
On my laptop the log continues

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Mon Aug  5 07:27:45 EST 2013: performing suspend
Mon Aug  5 07:55:38 EST 2013: Awake.
Mon Aug  5 07:55:38 EST 2013: Running hooks for resume

and then a section of all the hooks succeeding.

Was the other distribution on the same machine? Can you compare logs?
Sometimes there is a BIOS setting for what sleep mode to use. I can't remember which was what off the top of my head, but my desktop had a problem with one of the options.

[davidwillis]

Yes, the other distribution was on this machine, in fact I have used several on this machine that have worked (pclinuxos, ubuntu, and Manjaro). However none of them have been running xfce. Just gnome and kde. I may try salix kde and see if that works.

Unfortunately I don't have the logs anymore since I wiped the drive when I installed Salix. However I just booted into windows 7, and the suspend works fine there.

[davidwillis]

well this is interesting. I have installed pclinuxos back on (not the same version I had, but a newer 64 bit version), and when I suspend, it shuts down too... I also tried mint and it shuts down as well... so no new linux verstions work anymore. This is not just Salix...

windows 7 still works though.

[aurlaent]

It's not surprising that windows works. They get special treatment from the hardware manufacurers (something to do with money I believe).
Have you tried 'sleep' or suspend to RAM instead of suspend to disk?

Are you certain that the resume= parameter on your kernel boot points to your swap partition?
That's the only other thing I can think of.
It certainly looks like a problem with the resume side of things.
try

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cat /proc/swaps

and check that it is /dev/sda2