On Dec 3, 2014 11:33 AM, "Michael Vetter" <michael.vet...@uni-konstanz.de> wrote: > > Hello there, > > I use i3 as my window manager and use xfce4-power-manager for saving > battery and stuff on my laptop. Today I tried "hibernation" for the > first time and realized: it does not work. > > All I did so far was installing fce4-power-manager selecting some > sections in kernel config that seemed necessary and installed polkit. > > However when I close my notebook's lid (I configured xfce4-power-manager > to switch into hibernation in this case) it shuts down, but when i press > the start button, it just does a normal restart. > What am I missing? > > Michael >
Maybe you need to pass the resume-partition parameter to the kernel in the bootloader. Point it to your swap device. You can boot normal with this parameter set and not hibernated
