Hi,
Since installing suse 11.4 I experienced the following issue a few times (maybe 3 times): after going into hibernate (suspend to disk) the system will not run anymore. There are some error messages. I had to reinstall the system from DVD.
I have a Dell e4200 notebook.
Any ideas?
Try explaining in some more detail exactly what happened, what you did.
How much RAM do you have and how much swap space.
You know that you should never hibernate one OS and try booting another?
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:36:02 +0000, amyekut wrote:
> There are some error messages
In addition to caf’s suggestions, “some error messages” doesn’t give
anyone anything specific to go on. Please capture (via photo or other
means if necessary) what specific error messages you receive, as that
is critical information to anyone trying to troubleshoot this problem for
you.
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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More explanation: each of the times this problem happened was after several weeks of working on the computer, with the system behaving consistently. I normally go to suspend-to-ram or to hibernate (suspend-to-disc) a few times a day, and almost never rebooting.
So, after weeks of smooth operation, all of a sudden the computer fails to recover from a suspend-to-disc. I did not take a note of the error messages (and I have no idea how to replicate the problem, i.e. to cause the failure again now). I tried to boot the system a few times (in regular and in safe modes, always SUSE – never windows), but it always showed a text login screen, which however did not actually pemit me to login (refused).
As I said, I was forced to do a fresh install of the SUSE 11.4 to regain operation.
Here are the numbers: I have 2.8 GB RAM, and 2.01 GB swap space on the disc. Are these good sizes?
Thanks,
Amnon
By the way, I tried to upload photos of the system data, but the forum program refused the upload…
Much has been said about RAM and SWAP and I’m not certain of facts.
But I always have as much SWAP as RAM.
Something else to look at is this:
Clear Temp Files at Boot
I’m wondering if your work is filling /tmp
For example, if you create dvd’s, sometimes data is placed in /tmp, and often some large files
The above will clear /tmp whenever you reboot.
I added a second swap partition on the disc, so in total I now have 3.0 GB of swap space (compared to 2.8 GB of RAM). Hoping for the best…
Thanks for the help!
On 2011-08-02 13:56, amyekut wrote:
>
> More explanation: each of the times this problem happened was after
> several weeks of working on the computer, with the system behaving
> consistently. I normally go to suspend-to-ram or to hibernate
> (suspend-to-disc) a few times a day, and almost never rebooting.
Like me.
> So, after weeks of smooth operation, all of a sudden the computer fails
> to recover from a suspend-to-disc. I did not take a note of the error
> messages (and I have no idea how to replicate the problem, i.e. to cause
> the failure again now). I tried to boot the system a few times (in
> regular and in safe modes, always SUSE – never windows), but it always
> showed a text login screen, which however did not actually pemit me to
> login (refused).
Pity you did not record the error.
Typically when the system crashes during hibernation or thawing, you get
corrupted filesystems on all opened partitions, thus on next boot you
suffer a long fsck session on all those partitions.
If the fsck fails, you get dumped into an emergency text recovery mode,
where you are expected to repair things and end with control-D to close and
reboot.
This said, there are two people that have reported here failure to suspend
after some recent updates. You could be a third person.
It is also possible that some important files got corrupted.
> Here are the numbers: I have 2.8 GB RAM, and 2.01 GB swap space on the
> disc. Are these good sizes?
You need 3 GiB, on the same partition. Only one is used for hibernation.
> By the way, I tried to upload photos of the system data, but the forum
> program refused the upload…
We have a pastebin for that purpose.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
> Here are the numbers: I have 2.8 GB RAM, and 2.01 GB swap space on the
> disc. Are these good sizes?
You need 3 GiB, on the same partition. Only one is used for hibernation.
Aha, I see. I now fixed that and have a single large swap partition. Thanks.