OK, so that's basically what I ended up with. Since then the instances
of hibernate lockup have diminished. Not completely gone but better.
So thanks for the tip.
I haven't gone looking for the BIOS yet. The T42 has a built-in wi-fi
unit so your sad tale might not apply. Still, it's a last res
T42 8.10
Linux Mobility 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686
GNU/Linux
3/4 of the time won't start up after hibernate
Found this online:
"When i upgraded ubuntu to 8.10 i noticed that my ubuntu don't resume
from hibernation when i unplug power cord after my laptop is hiber
Doesn't seem to make any difference. The pattern from the previous
comment doesn't look like it describes the behavior.
Is there some way to switch off the splash screen during startup so that
I can watch what is happening and figure out what step is hanging the
system? I'd like to gather more d
I altered /boot/grub/menu.lst to turn off the splash screen. When I
restart after a hibernate it gives a message that it's booting from a
stored image (not exact message but the sense of it) and then nothing
until the caps lock icon starts blinking. Oh, well, it was worth a
shot.
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Hibernate f
I removed the quiet flag from /boot/grub/menu.lst. I got the following
at the end:
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/[GUID]
[ 4.066500] PM: Starting manual resume from disk
[ 4.067022] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.00 seconds) done.
[ 4.067128] Freezing remaining freez
I added the no_console_suspend flag to /boot/grub/menu.lst. This
produced some more data but didn't fix the problem. Here's the new
data, with the changing numbers replaced with bracketed place holders:
[TIME] PM: Loading image data pages ([PAGES] pages) ... done
[TIME] PM: Read [KBYTES] kbytes
I tried that but it didn't work for me. I may not know how to install a
kernel option. I had previously been adding parameters to the first
menu option. It seemed odd that you would add something to the
defoptions line and not uncomment it so I tried it both ways. I added
the parameters to the
