On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Selim T. Erdogan <se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu> wrote: > Colin Lancaster, 28.11.2011: >> Hello, >> >> I recently installed Debian 6.0.3 (squeeze) on my Acer Aspire 5735 laptop and >> I'm having problems resuming after hibernation. >> >> Hibernation seems to succeed; the computer takes some time and shuts >> off. Then, when I press the power to resume, the power turns on and >> the hard drive light is active - but then it stops and turns off. > > Do you see anything on your screen? > > >From my experience using hibernation in the past, the way resuming works > is, you turn the computer on and it starts up like normal, goes to the > grub screen, you choose the appropriate kernel (usually automatically), > then the boot messages start and after a little bit it will notice > there's a resume image and continue from that. Are you seeing anything > like this at all? If not, it seems pretty strange. > > (And just to be clear: you're hibernating, not sleeping, right? In the > latter, there's usually a blinking power light on. When you wake the > machine up, it should go back up very quickly. Though when it's not > working right, it might just reboot instead, or possibly even turn off > after not being able to wake up properly. Similar to what you're seeing.) > >> If I remove my laptop from AC (and remove the battery), and then go >> back on AC, it will start up (but not in the same state prior to >> hibernation). > > I've had problems where it just boots up normally after hibernation, not > recognizing the resume image, booting up to a clean state. But your > problem seems different, so far. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111201130830.ga5...@cs.utexas.edu >
This issue appears to have resolved itself without my intervention. I believe - although I haven't verified this yet - that an update to the pm-utils package was the solution. Thanks to everyone who provided help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CACeBXkDXov=3h_9VOTdYiPvUTPAS5bcR_B1B1JrBkSvUf_z=r...@mail.gmail.com
