Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:49 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:13 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to get my system(s) ready for the new (read crappy) way mandated by udev and am having some issues. I usually manually compile my kernels, use tuxonice and dont use an initrd/initramfs. As ToI is not available for the latest kernels, I updated openrc and installed genkernel but then found I couldnt use in-kernel suspend to disk - googling implies that genkernel doesnt support suspend/hibernate but there are various kludges to get it to work. So whats the least invasive, but workable kludge? hibernate, pmhibernate, swsuspend, uswsuspend, ... Are there any (up to date) docs? BillK According to the docs I have found you need to patch genkernel to run /sbin/resume - it was a longstanding argument between two now retired devs with the result that genkernel wont (ever) support hibernation. I dont know from reading the bugs if it was ever fixed now the dev who wouldnt has retired, or is genkernel is still broken. Also, I have no /sbin/resume on any of my systems (some are years old and have been successfully running ToI for most of that time) - so how can the initramfs actually start resumimg? Though I have a more immediate problem - hangs on hibernation and no log messages. BillK Well, patching genkernel worked so its still broken as regards suspend/resume - so I can now suspend/resume still with some errors. Next problem is that there are error messages implying /usr might not be mounted by the initramfs (some /usr files not found) ... is there anything else that needs doing? Once the system is up /usr and all other directories are correctly mounted (most are on LVM). Is there a way to get a detailed log of what the initrd is doing/has done? BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:20 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:49 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:13 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to get my system(s) ready for the new (read crappy) way mandated by udev and am having some issues. I usually manually compile my kernels, use tuxonice and dont use an initrd/initramfs. As ToI is not available for the latest kernels, I updated openrc and installed genkernel but then found I couldnt use in-kernel suspend to disk - googling implies that genkernel doesnt support suspend/hibernate but there are various kludges to get it to work. So whats the least invasive, but workable kludge? hibernate, pmhibernate, swsuspend, uswsuspend, ... Are there any (up to date) docs? BillK According to the docs I have found you need to patch genkernel to run /sbin/resume - it was a longstanding argument between two now retired devs with the result that genkernel wont (ever) support hibernation. I dont know from reading the bugs if it was ever fixed now the dev who wouldnt has retired, or is genkernel is still broken. Also, I have no /sbin/resume on any of my systems (some are years old and have been successfully running ToI for most of that time) - so how can the initramfs actually start resumimg? Though I have a more immediate problem - hangs on hibernation and no log messages. BillK Well, patching genkernel worked so its still broken as regards suspend/resume - so I can now suspend/resume still with some errors. Next problem is that there are error messages implying /usr might not be mounted by the initramfs (some /usr files not found) ... is there anything else that needs doing? Once the system is up /usr and all other directories are correctly mounted (most are on LVM). Did you run genkernel with --lvm? Sorry, I don't use genkernel, but dracut has several options to include arbitrary files on the initramfs. I'm sure genkernel has something similar; why don't you try to add the /usr missing files in the initramfs? Good luck. Is there a way to get a detailed log of what the initrd is doing/has done? BillK -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 00:26 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:20 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:49 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:13 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to get my system(s) ready for the new (read crappy) way mandated by udev and am having some issues. ... BillK Well, patching genkernel worked so its still broken as regards suspend/resume - so I can now suspend/resume still with some errors. Next problem is that there are error messages implying /usr might not be mounted by the initramfs (some /usr files not found) ... is there anything else that needs doing? Once the system is up /usr and all other directories are correctly mounted (most are on LVM). Did you run genkernel with --lvm? Sorry, I don't use genkernel, but dracut has several options to include arbitrary files on the initramfs. I'm sure genkernel has something similar; why don't you try to add the /usr missing files in the initramfs? Good luck. Is there a way to get a detailed log of what the initrd is doing/has done? BillK Good call! - was missing LVM. I thought the genkernel config file had LVM as a default ... but it didnt so no error messages now. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.
On 03/14/2012 04:49 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: According to the docs I have found you need to patch genkernel to run /sbin/resume - it was a longstanding argument between two now retired devs with the result that genkernel wont (ever) support hibernation. I dont know from reading the bugs if it was ever fixed now the dev who wouldnt has retired, or is genkernel is still broken. I'd be interested to hear more details. Can you share links to your sources with me? Thanks, Sebastian
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 14:27 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 03/14/2012 04:49 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: According to the docs I have found you need to patch genkernel to run /sbin/resume - it was a longstanding argument between two now retired devs with the result that genkernel wont (ever) support hibernation. I dont know from reading the bugs if it was ever fixed now the dev who wouldnt has retired, or is genkernel is still broken. I'd be interested to hear more details. Can you share links to your sources with me? Thanks, Sebastian https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156445 - particularly the comment dated 2007-09-14 20:58:00 UTC. and google gets others as well. There are a number of guides describing the patching and related problems ... note that the above is 2007 ... and it still doesnt work. Basicly the question is does genkernel support some of the more complex setups, but as having suspend/resume on a laptop is almost mandatory its something genkernel should support out of the box. For my uses, if it has to be patched to add such basic support ... its broke. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:28 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 14:27 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 03/14/2012 04:49 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: According to the docs I have found you need to patch genkernel to run /sbin/resume - it was a longstanding argument between two now retired devs with the result that genkernel wont (ever) support hibernation. I dont know from reading the bugs if it was ever fixed now the dev who wouldnt has retired, or is genkernel is still broken. I'd be interested to hear more details. Can you share links to your sources with me? Thanks, Sebastian https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156445 - particularly the comment dated 2007-09-14 20:58:00 UTC. and google gets others as well. There are a number of guides describing the patching and related problems ... note that the above is 2007 ... and it still doesnt work. Basicly the question is does genkernel support some of the more complex setups, but as having suspend/resume on a laptop is almost mandatory its something genkernel should support out of the box. For my uses, if it has to be patched to add such basic support ... its broke. Mmmmh. Again, as I said before, suspend/resume should have nothing to do with an initramfs. Hibernate it's the one that may need special support from the initramfs to work. Just to clarify, neither of them works for you without patching genkernel? Or are you talking only about hibernate? Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.
On 15/03/2012, at 0:54, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:28 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 14:27 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 03/14/2012 04:49 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: According to the docs I have found you need to patch genkernel to run /sbin/resume - it was a longstanding argument between two now retired devs with the result that genkernel wont (ever) support hibernation. I dont know from reading the bugs if it was ever fixed now the dev who wouldnt has retired, or is genkernel is still broken. I'd be interested to hear more details. Can you share links to your sources with me? Thanks, Sebastian https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156445 - particularly the comment dated 2007-09-14 20:58:00 UTC. and google gets others as well. There are a number of guides describing the patching and related problems ... note that the above is 2007 ... and it still doesnt work. Basicly the question is does genkernel support some of the more complex setups, but as having suspend/resume on a laptop is almost mandatory its something genkernel should support out of the box. For my uses, if it has to be patched to add such basic support ... its broke. Mmmmh. Again, as I said before, suspend/resume should have nothing to do with an initramfs. Hibernate it's the one that may need special support from the initramfs to work. Just to clarify, neither of them works for you without patching genkernel? Or are you talking only about hibernate? Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México I have only tested hibernate - some major problems when starting this morning, buts that's probably tuning for in-kernel as against a system setup for ToI. I also am getting /usr errors again (both on boot and resume from hibernate, can't find some binaries on /usr, but mounts ok later in the sequence -maybe timing) - lack of detailed debug when in the initramfs is a problem - will have to start scattering print statements through it ... This is on a home gateway/server that's shutdown/powered off overnight. Startup has to be fast as when power comes on (via remote controlled relays) there are PXE diskless NFS systems (mythtv front ends) that time out if it goes through a full boot sequence. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:43 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: I am trying to get my system(s) ready for the new (read crappy) way mandated by udev and am having some issues. I usually manually compile my kernels, use tuxonice and dont use an initrd/initramfs. As ToI is not available for the latest kernels, I updated openrc and installed genkernel but then found I couldnt use in-kernel suspend to disk - googling implies that genkernel doesnt support suspend/hibernate but there are various kludges to get it to work. So whats the least invasive, but workable kludge? hibernate, pmhibernate, swsuspend, uswsuspend, ... Are there any (up to date) docs? BillK Hibernate/suspend works for me like a charm using hibernate script with gentoo-sources genkernel 3.4.24 (~amd64 system). But it's a desktop not a laptop. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:13 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: I am trying to get my system(s) ready for the new (read crappy) way mandated by udev and am having some issues. I usually manually compile my kernels, use tuxonice and dont use an initrd/initramfs. As ToI is not available for the latest kernels, I updated openrc and installed genkernel but then found I couldnt use in-kernel suspend to disk - googling implies that genkernel doesnt support suspend/hibernate but there are various kludges to get it to work. So whats the least invasive, but workable kludge? hibernate, pmhibernate, swsuspend, uswsuspend, ... Are there any (up to date) docs? Hi; not sure if it will help you, but I have been using vanilla-sources since forever (sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.30.3, since Aug 29, 2009), and my laptop suspends and resumes pretty much always without any issue. I don't use genkernel: I manually configure and compile my kernels since always, and I use dracut for my initramfs. Anyhow; suspend/resume should be orthogonal to an initramfs, since the first has nothing to do with the second. I don't know about hibernate (it's been years since I hibernated my laptop), but it should be similar, I think. In my laptop, GNOME does the suspend for me, but it calls pm-suspend (I believe) from pm-utils. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:13 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to get my system(s) ready for the new (read crappy) way mandated by udev and am having some issues. I usually manually compile my kernels, use tuxonice and dont use an initrd/initramfs. As ToI is not available for the latest kernels, I updated openrc and installed genkernel but then found I couldnt use in-kernel suspend to disk - googling implies that genkernel doesnt support suspend/hibernate but there are various kludges to get it to work. So whats the least invasive, but workable kludge? hibernate, pmhibernate, swsuspend, uswsuspend, ... Are there any (up to date) docs? BillK According to the docs I have found you need to patch genkernel to run /sbin/resume - it was a longstanding argument between two now retired devs with the result that genkernel wont (ever) support hibernation. I dont know from reading the bugs if it was ever fixed now the dev who wouldnt has retired, or is genkernel is still broken. Also, I have no /sbin/resume on any of my systems (some are years old and have been successfully running ToI for most of that time) - so how can the initramfs actually start resumimg? Though I have a more immediate problem - hangs on hibernation and no log messages. BillK
