suspend2/hibernate not working

a_l_a_n · n00b Joined: 16 Dec 2006 Posts: 49

Im trying to get suspend2 to work but cant. I followed http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Software_Suspend_v2 to install. When I run hibernate I get a load of gibberish on a terminal. It could be an error (I cant see the top of it). It contains things like a stack trace, and loads of hex, although it doesnt sound like an error, more like a log. It hangs and I have to hard reset. I cant get a copy of the output to show you. Once, when I did it from within a desktop environment, it was slowly outputting what looked like logs from my firewall below the aforementioned gibberish.

I have no idea where to go with this, and the more I fumble around blindly the greater the risk to my disks.

Heres a section of hibernate.log. Here you can see what happens when I first hibernate from an X-less console, then do it from the desktop environment, then do it from the desktop environment after making some changes to get the nvidia module out (from this thread). The point is that the known nvidia problem doesnt seem to be it.

Help me!

terminal9 · Apprentice Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 157

http://www.suspend2.net/
especially FAQ -> Compatibility issues

a_l_a_n · n00b Joined: 16 Dec 2006 Posts: 49

I tried the troubleshooting steps but have learned nothing.

I tried in single user mode (init S), but got the same problem.

I then tried booting a bare bones kernel (http://www.suspend2.net/HOWTO.html#toc5.3) with the intention of searching exhaustively for a problem module, but after assembling my disks and trying $ hibernate again I got something like:

terminal9 · Apprentice Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 157

I have no idea about your hardware, which of your modules are static (hence cannot be unloaded), which are dynamic, how you setup your swap area, whether you've patched the kernel yourself or directly using suspend-sources from portage, their versions, etc. Hibernate logs don't mean much to me, and the photo is snapshot of your kernel crash.
Suspend2 is very picky, that's why I posted the site's link, read everything because info is dispersed all over the site.
e.g. http://www.suspend2.net/HOWTO.html#toc2.2
http://www.suspend2.net/FAQ.html#toc4.4
I don't think soft RAID-0 meets these req's.

Edited to add:If you're really determined to make this work on your system, I suggest you examine the source code comments and other docs in Suspend patches.