Checking the obvious; "make menuconfig"...
> Power management and ACPI options
[ ] Suspend to RAM and standby
[*] Hibernation (aka 'suspend to disk')
[*] Userspace snapshot device
(/dev/sda2) Default resume partition
Checking where/how it'll suspend...
cat /sys/power/state
disk
So far, so good. I was ssh'd in and I shrank the font size to
"unreadable" and ran "hibernate --verbosity=4", to get debug level
output. It captured "only" the last 519 lines of output, attached as
errlog.txt.gz which I copy/pasted to vim on my desktop.
Line 305 is where "DoSysfsPowerStateSuspend" starts
Line 317 is the "/bin/echo -n disk" statement
Next we look at file /usr/share/hibernate/scriptlets.d/sysfs_power_state
which has a short function DoSysfsPowerStateSuspend(). Anyone remember
ye old dayes of FORTRAN, where you'd throw in print statements to debug
errors? I've added a few debug statements, like so...
DoSysfsPowerStateSuspend() {
if [ -z "$SYSFS_POWER_STATE_NO_SUSPEND" ] ; then
vecho 1 "$EXE: Activating sysfs power state $USING_SYSFS_POWER_STATE
..."
echo "1 ==> $USING_SYSFS_POWER_STATE"
echo "2 ==> $SYSFS_POWER_STATE_POWERDOWN_METHOD"
echo "3 ==> $SYSFS_POWERDOWN_METHOD_FILE"
echo "4 ==> $SYSFS_POWER_STATE_FILE"
[ -n "$SYSFS_POWER_STATE_POWERDOWN_METHOD" ] && \
[ -f "$SYSFS_POWERDOWN_METHOD_FILE" ] && \
/bin/echo $SYSFS_POWER_STATE_POWERDOWN_METHOD >
$SYSFS_POWERDOWN_METHOD_FILE
/bin/echo -n $USING_SYSFS_POWER_STATE > $SYSFS_POWER_STATE_FILE
else
vecho 1 "$EXE: Not actually suspending (--no-suspend given)"
fi
return 0
}
The output from hibernate is...
1 ==> disk
2 ==>
3 ==> /sys/power/disk
4 ==> /sys/power/state
/bin/echo: write error: No such device
No powerdown method? I added "resume=/dev/sda2" to lilo.conf and
re-ran lilo. And now we cross the boundary from the ridiculous to the
totally utterly sublime.
[thimk][root][~] cat /sys/power/state
disk
[thimk][root][~] echo disk > /sys/power/state
-bash: echo: write error: No such device
[thimk][root][~] cat /sys/power/state
disk
WTF!!!
--
Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
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