On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:06:46 -0500 (EST) Ryan Hughes <r...@iheartryan.com> wrote:
> Hi. I've got some more info. > I got out a backup drive that was made before, when sleep worked. I > can boot from it, and it can still sleep. So that means there's some > sort of software problem. I looked through a bunch of files, and > didn't see anything obvious. I thought I'd send it along and see if > someone here could help interpret the results, or knew of an > additional source of info. > > I attached two dmesg's: One from when I booted from my backup, where > sleep worked. That's called dmesg.good.txt. The other is from when > I boot now, where sleep doesn't work. That's called dmesg.bad.txt. > > I took diffs of many commands. They are attached. > One is 'dpkg -l', showing all the packages I have installed. > > One is lsmod | sort. > > There is no difference in uname -a. That's: > Linux drawesome 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 02:46:46 > UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I also included diff -Nru of the good /etc directory with that of my > current /etc/ directory. > > I edited out a little bit of sensitive information. vpn config files > and such. > Note: There's a lot of stuff in there about kvm. But it turns out > that my processor (an Intel Celeron) can't run kvm, so it is not > actually loaded. > > So, I hope somebody can help me out. If not, I will just have to > reinstall my OS, as though this was Windows Vista or something. > > Thanks. > --Ryan > > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Ryan Jud Hughes wrote: > > > > > Hi. I've been running my laptop for about a year. It's a > > Lenovo-branded Thinkpad R61. For most of its life, everything went > > fine. Suddenly, about a month ago, I lost the ability to suspend. > > > > I'm using Ubuntu 8.04, with a variety of their kernels, such as > > 2.6.22-14. > > > > I'd like to tell you what version of pm-suspend I'm using, but > > typing 'pm-suspend --version' causes the screen to go blank and > > bumps me to some blank virtual console or something. > > > > This is the same thing that happens when I use any combination of > > quirks I've tried. I get bumped to some blank virtual console. > > Perhaps VC 7 without X graphics on it. Hitting alt-F7 takes me > > back into X. Nothing shows up in the syslog or > > in /var/log/pm-suspend.log. The machine stays active. The screen > > is on, it responds to ssh, all calculations continue. Just that > > slight bump to the graphics is the only way I know that anything at > > all has happened. > > > > The traditional quirks to use with this hardware platform are > > s3-mode and s3-bios. That combination has the same results as any > > other combination. > > > > So what should I try? How can I get some more information out of > > there? Do I need to set it to some sort of debug mode in order to > > get the debugging info? Hi Ryan, Sorry for the delay; I've had this marked as "to-reply" for several days now, but I keep forgetting... Anyway, you can run pm-suspend from a command line like this to get more information in the log: PM_DEBUG=true pm-suspend # run as root This sounds like you have a stale lockfile in /var/run/pm-utils/locks/ though - check to see, and if so, remove it. -RW
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