On 17/03/18 03:07, Michael Biebl wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 10:02:32 +0000 Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote: >> Package: systemd >> Version: 232-25+deb9u1 >> Severity: important >> >> >> Laptop was connected to a Thunderbolt dock, lid closed, using desktop >> monitor and keyboard, everything connected through the dock. It is a >> laptop with encrypted LVM and swap on LVM. >> >> Laptop's thunderbolt cable was bumped very slightly without coming out >> completely and then pushed back in. As the lid was down, it appears the >> laptop tried to suspend >> >> It didn't really suspend though, it became frozen with a blank screen. >> >> After a hard reboot, every subsequent attempt to close the lid or undock >> also failed, the screen would go blank and it wouldn't come back. >> >> journalctl and /var/log/messages provided no clues. >> >> Guessing it was a problem with the swap partition, tried the following: >> >> swapoff /dev/mapper/vg00--vg-swap_1 >> mkswap /dev/mapper/vg00--vg-swap_1 >> mkswap: /dev/mapper/vg00--vg-swap_1: warning: wiping old swap signature. >> Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 23.8 GiB (25513947136 bytes) >> no label, UUID= >> swapon /dev/mapper/vg00--vg-swap_1 >> >> In this case, the swap partition is named in /etc/fstab, not the UUID. >> For somebody with the UUID in fstab it would be necessary to update >> there too and also run update-initramfs >> >> This is not hard for an experienced user to resolve but very annoying as >> you only discover you have a problem after the second attempt to sleep. >> >> Can systemd or whatever else is involved in the suspend/sleep mechanism >> be improved to detect problems like this, give some kind of error to the >> user and maybe even help them automatically correct it? > > It's unclear to me what exactly your specific problem is/how and how > systemd should detect that. >
The problem: a corrupted swap partition Before deciding how systemd should detect that, it may first be necessary to decide if it is the job of systemd or some other process to detect the problem _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers
