Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] big silence when trying to hibernate

Hi Jens.

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 13:27 +0200, Jens Gustedt wrote:
> Hi Nigel and everybody,
> I have a problem since 2.6.25, so way old, but I never found the time
> to investigate it further. Now my time budget looks a bit better...
>
> Problem: since 2.6.25 tuxonice simply wouldn't hibernate for me. I now
> tried a lot of things, different kernel versions (most recent 2.6.26),
> many different compile options, switched off everything fancy that I
> could via the /sys interface, changed my bios from plain sata to ahci
> back and forth, changed from encrypted swap to normal ... nothing
> helped.
>
> On first boot TOI correctly detects everything, sees that this is not
> an hibernated image and continues booting. Then when trying to
> hibernate, nothing happens, even in single user mode the
>
> echo > /sys/power/tuxonice/do_hibernate
>
> just blocks. Nothing, no error message, no logs, nada. (Fortunately
> sysrq still works, so I can power down almost correctly)
>
> suspend to ram and vanilla swsusp work. (suspend to ram produces a
> lockup of the machine for one in 10 tries in wakeup, but I can't
> imagine this related.)
>
> This is a dual core (Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7100) 64 bit
> system. I attach my .config, for 2.6.26 with TOI from git.
> Perhaps I just have overlooked something
> stupid, any help would be apreciated.

I think I found the problem last night, and committed a fix before
releasing the 2.6.26 patch that's now on the website. If you're using
git, or willing to use 2.6.26, would you please update and give it a
try?

Regards,

Nigel