First off I’m using gnome 3 and opensuse 12.2 on my laptop (check sig). I have Ubuntu, openSUSE, windows 8 beta, and Kubuntu on it.
I wanted to multi-hibernate my laptop so I switched my swap from my swap partition (/dev/sda5) to a file on /dev/sda6. I changed my /etc/fstab, I then changed my grub2 statement
to
resume=/dev/sda6 resume_offset=whatever running swap-offset myfile was
Then I noticed hibernate button doesn’t work
I think I also tried editing some pm-utils config files, but I guess you must use the kernel method.
so I switched to the kernel method and wrote a script
#!/bin/bash
echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk
echo disk > /sys/power/state
Then I made a keyboard shortcut to F11
gnomesu my_hibernate_script
notice the gnomesu in order to get root priv.
Works very nicely
but my screen won’t lock b4 it shutsdown
I’ve tried editing my script to include:
su <myname> -c gnome-screensaver-command --lock &
all combinations of such
to no avail
so my question is if its possible to lock it b4, whether there is some other place to signify this
and what do you think about my hibernate setup anyway. AFAIK the kernel method is the only way to hibernate to a swap file, if not can you point me in the right direction
(pm-utils etc). Would be nice if I could use the already made button under the menu for powering down/logout.
On 2012-10-11 02:36, please try again wrote:
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> robin_listas;2495080 Wrote:
>> On 2012-10-10 23:46, cw9000 wrote:
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>>> Then I noticed hibernate button doesn’t work
>>
>> I’m unsure you can hibernate to a file, I think it needs a partition.
>>
>
> ‘[all variants] HOWTO: Use swapfile instead of partition and hibernate
> - Ubuntu Forums’ (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1042946)
Oh.
But you have to do some work, it is not automatic, right? I did not understand it all (very
late night here). Which means that if the designers of the hibernate button functionality think
that it is not possible, the button will not work.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
su -
fallocate -l 4000m /swap_file #4000 mb, You may want to put the number higher if you have a lot of memory
swapoff -a
mkswap /swap_file
nano /etc/fstab
#delete previous swap entry then add
/swap_file swap swap defaults 0 0
#then save and exit
swap-offset /swap_file
nano /etc/grub.d/40_custom
add to linux line: resume=<partition swapfile is on> resume_offset=<swap-offset return data>
swapon -a
nano /home/name/bin/hibernate_shutdown
#!/bin/bash
echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk
echo disk > /sys/power/state
create shortcut. system-settings->keyboard->shortcuts->custom shortcuts add
gnomesu /home/name/bin/hibernate_shutdown
set to F11
chmod +x /home/name/bin/hibernate_shutdown
restart computer
viola
if you want to restart after hibernate instead of shutdown
echo reboot > /sys/power/disk
echo disk > /sys/power/state
so just hit F11 put in your password and you’re hibernated
but the screen will not lock before hibernate, no matter what I try
thanks for the suggestion jdmcdaniel3
but it didn’t work.
well, guess I’ll have to live with it for now.
does pm-hibernate allow you to hibernate to a swap file, if so, how. pm-hibernate didn’t work on my system. I checked the log /var/log/pm-suspend.log and it said something…well I can’t remember exactly what it said, but said something
about user method vs kernel method or something like that. I don’t think it likes the resume_offset in grub
On 2012-10-13 02:46, cw9000 wrote:
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> does pm-hibernate allow you to hibernate to a swap file, if so, how.
> pm-hibernate didn’t work on my system. I checked the log
> /var/log/pm-suspend.log and it said something…well I can’t remember
> exactly what it said, but said something
> about user method vs kernel method or something like that. I don’t
> think it likes the resume_offset in grub
Ah… yes, I see the problem. Right, pm-hibernate would not work, not without some hacking somewhere
(and I don’t know how/what)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
