On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 01:16, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 7:32 am, Mofeed Shahin wrote: > > > On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 12:23 am, Mof wrote: > > >> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:47 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > > >> > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:43, Anne Wilson wrote: > > >> > > On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > >> > > > With the extra information of not attempting resume > > >> > > > allowing it > > >> > > >> to boot, I'll wager that your swap contains a corrupted system > > >> image and is unusable as swap. free will show you no swap > > >> available. swapoff, format /dev/hda5, swapon. > > >> > > >> > > If you are right about swap containing a corrupted imate, > > >> > > what can > > >> > > >> he do about it? > > >> > > >> > swapoff /dev/hdaX mkdswap /dev/hdaX (your swap partition) > > >> > swapon > > >> > > >> /dev/hdaX Then create a second swap partion about 10-20% > > >> larger than ram and use it for suspend not the normal swap. > > >> > > >> I looked at free, and all the swap was free, but I formated it > > >> anyway to make sure. (I did format both swap partitions to be > > >> sure as well) It still hangs when the lid is closed. > > > > > > Did you make the second swap, as James suggested? > > > > Yes, I now have 2 swap partitions. > > /dev/hda5 which is 768M > > /dev/hda7 which is 1G > > > > /dev/hda5 is my real swap partition. > > > OK. Now have you checked that the suspend is now trying for hda7? > And (sorry if this is insulting, it's not meant to be, but we all > forget the obvious sometimes) there is a mount statement for hda7 in > fstab and it's currently mounted? > > Anne
hda7 shouldn't get mounted! http://swsusp.sourceforge.net/ is the site. http://swsusp.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html for the FAQ and http://swsusp.sourceforge.net/Software-suspend.html for the howto. James
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