Hi, I'm a linux newbie, and I've recently been playing about with
Debian Etch on my IBM ThinkPad R52.

When I first installed it a few weeks ago I could suspend/hibernate
etc etc... Since then of course I've been fiddling about, adding
things (like the wifi) and failing to add things like my webcam. At
the weekend I tried to use suspend. It looked like it went into
suspend okay, but it wouldn't come back out.

I had to hard boot it.

How do I go about finding what's screwed up?

Please be specific and detailed, I'm an experienced windows
user/programmer, but very out of my comfort zone with linux.

Ta

Dodgy.
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After takin' a swig o' grog, Dodgy belched out this bit o' wisdom:

> When I first installed it a few weeks ago I could suspend/hibernate
> etc etc... Since then of course I've been fiddling about, adding
> things (like the wifi) and failing to add things like my webcam. At
> the weekend I tried to use suspend. It looked like it went into
> suspend okay, but it wouldn't come back out.
>
> I had to hard boot it.
>
> How do I go about finding what's screwed up?
>
> Please be specific and detailed, I'm an experienced windows
> user/programmer, but very out of my comfort zone with linux.

All you can do (I think) is look through /var/log/messages and see if
you see any complaints that might be related.

But I've never bothered with suspend, I like my computer to shut down
thank you very much.

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In <slrnf6u36t.uhi.linonut@mlsrock.launchmodem.com> Linonut:

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> look through /var/log/messages

Always a good idea. I too use suspend with a ASUS laptop (to RAM) and a
Compaq Deskpro (to disk) very successfully, *except* when I have my USB
flashdrive mounted (with SuSE 10.0). In both cases on occasion I cannot
get the system to resume from suspend; a reboot is needed.

It's been a while, and my messages file has rotated out, but ISTR there
were vague (to me) warnings about missing mountpoint (?) in messages as
the system went into suspend with the flashdrive mounted.

HTH; YMMV...

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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:54:57 +0100, Dodgy wrote:
> Hi, I'm a linux newbie, and I've recently been playing about with
> Debian Etch on my IBM ThinkPad R52.
>
> When I first installed it a few weeks ago I could suspend/hibernate
> etc etc... Since then of course I've been fiddling about, adding
> things (like the wifi) and failing to add things like my webcam. At
> the weekend I tried to use suspend. It looked like it went into
> suspend okay, but it wouldn't come back out.
>
> I had to hard boot it.
>
> How do I go about finding what's screwed up?
>
> Please be specific and detailed, I'm an experienced windows
> user/programmer, but very out of my comfort zone with linux.
>
> Ta
>
> Dodgy.

Howdy-

I've had a share of issues with my thinkpad t40 in the past suspending.
Right now its running etch with a 2.6.18 kernel and suspend/resume and
even hibernate works perfectly.  For me, the issue was
gnome-power-manager.  Everytime I've had issues with suspending, I've
removed that package and simplified the suspend scripts a bit and its
helped.  You may also have to look at devices (like wifi) that fail to
suspend correctly.  ACPI writes a log file as well in /var/log and you
may want to do some thing to start troubleshooting. Try removing the
wifi drivers before you do a suspend and see if that works.  If so, you
may have to doctor the /etc/acpi/events scripts a bit.  You may also
want to read the thinkwiki site at thinkwiki.org for help with
suspending on thinkpads. I've found that site to be a great resource at
finding issues.  I would definitely check out drivers that you have
installed which may be blocking the suspend.

On Ubuntu Feisty I had my own issues where the laptop would not come
back and I had to power cycle it.  I believe that a laptop is a portable
computer and we have every right to demand that any operating system
suspends and we get full use out of it.  For your quest, you may have to
get down and dirty with acpi scripts and play a bit.  In the end, I took
a few actions which may not work for you.

You are gonna have to upgrade that comfort zone.  Try doing an apt-get
install libcomfortzone2   It will raise that uncomfortable zone you
find yourself in.  Seriously, you are gonna have to play around a bit
under the hood and decide if you want to use ACPI or APM to make things
work.

Take care.
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