Sorry for the delay in replying. The notification email triggered by your comment got lost in the noise, I'm afraid, and I forgot all about this.
Well, suspend/resume usually works - indeed it's been 10 days since the last time it failed, and I suspend and resume about a dozen times every day. Unfortunately, it fails frequently enough that I'm now extra wary to make sure that my laptop does indeed fully suspend when I ask it to. This intermittent failure has being going on for the past 18 months, so this isn't a recent problem. I don't think it's a hardware issue either, as everything used to work fine under Windows (I'm a bit of a Linux newbie). I was stung a while back, when my laptop failed to shut down properly, and I didn't notice. I packed the laptop away in a bag, and when I came back to it, it was extremely hot, the hard-drive was fried, and the battery was somewhat depleted on a permanent basis - grrr! Currently, I'm running Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.35-generic, and have run every version released by Ubuntu since the first Jaunty Alpha. There's been no noticable change in the frequency of occurrence, but it happens too infrequently to be sure what's really going on. I haven't noticed any failure when running the suspend script from VT1 rather than from an X session, but again the issue is too intermittent for this to really mean much. I've had a look at the DebuggingKernelSuspend you mentioned, but it's all a bit outside my zone of comfort. I'll have to back some data up first, so I don't have much to lose if things go pear-shaped. One thing that's mentioned is that suspend/resume problems are usually due to the resume phase, often with an offending device driver not awakening correctly. I should point out that I don't get that far. My laptop fails to fully suspend. My only recourse at that point is a hard shut down (power button for four seconds). Of course, after this, there is no resume - only a fresh, clean boot. Finally, as much as I'd like to be able to state a specific set of circumstances under which this problem occurs, I'm unable to reliably repeat the problem As far as I can tell, it's pretty much random. I do run my battery down to nearly empty from time to time, but this doesn't seem to have any effect on the problem. Regards, Chris -- [Dell Inc. MM061] suspend/resume failure https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336231 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
