On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 00:15 +0100, Willi Mann wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.37~rc7-1~experimental.1 > Severity: normal > > > After a few hibernate cycles, I can no longer suspend/hibernate my thinkpad > T500. It fails with mentioned error - see the attached logs. > > Additionally, my external cherry USB keyboard (plugged in the Docking > Station) > failed to work after the first failed hibernate attempt. However, unplugging > and replugging solved this problem. > > This is the second time that hibernation fails with 2.6.37-rc?, and the error > message in dmesg is the same (... error -5) so this seems reproducable. > > I can't test earlier kernels because up to 2.6.36, I had memory corruption > problems after wake-up from hibernate.
This may be fixed in Debian's 2.6.32 now as we have applied several fixes originally made in later versions. > In fact I'm quite happy that it > works now at least for a few cycles, but I'd like to get back to the state > before Kernel Mode Setting where i had an "uptime" of 180 days with at least > one hibernate cycle daily. [...] If you don't use the parallel port, you may be able to work around this by blacklisting the 'parport_pc' module. I see several reports of this against other distributions, but no sign of it being tracked down or fixed. Therefore, please report it upstream at <https://bugzilla.kernel.org> under product 'ACPI', component 'Power-Other'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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