Suspend to RAM, hibernate, and restart doesn't work

mothergoose729 · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 15

I compiled my kernel with ACPI support and support for AMD PowerNow and other features I though would be necessary for sleep. I have three computers in my workstation, so power management is really important if If I want to keep from having to turn the AC in winter. I looked up ACPI and found a getnoo guide, but it seems more geared towards laptops. Trying out a few things nothing seemed to work for me so now I am here.

Whenever I try and go to sleep under gnome by going to ->shutdown->suspend, I get an error message that says:

"Sleep Problem
Your computer failed to suspend. Check the help file for common problems."

And that is as detailed as it gets. Also, for whatever reason, if I am in gnome I cannot properly restart or shut down. If I exit out of gnome it to the pure console and enter reboot or ctrl+alt+delete the system will reboot just fine, but within gnome the system will hang after all my applications close. I have slackware installed on this same computer a while ago and sleep and restart worked just fine with it, so I know my hardware is plenty compatible. What should I do to fix this problem?

hardcore · l33t Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 626 Location: MSU, MI

I have a similar issue. I'll post if I'm able to solve this problem.
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Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 23193

Start with posting more information. So far, you have not provided enough for us to help you. Please provide the output of emerge --info ; lsmod. Tell us which approach you use to hibernate. Do you use an initrd? Try sleeping from the command line, both from the Linux console and via a root shell running in an xterm. Pick which problem you want to solve first: sleep or hibernation.

hardcore · l33t Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 626 Location: MSU, MI

As promised... reboot/shutdown only so far. I don't care enough about suspend or hibernate to correct it... yet.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6125586.html#6125586
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boerKrelis · Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:47 pm Post subject:

Emerge sys-power/pm-utils with appropriate USE flags. Quit X11 and run 'pm-suspend' from the console. Check /var/log/kernel/current (or equivalent, depends on the default settings of your system logger, I use metalog). Work from there ;-)