Re: Weird problems with laptop hibernate/boot/shutdown
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 10:19 -0400, Victor Munoz wrote:
> Hello. Since yesterday, several weird events occured with my laptop
> (Thinkpad T43), and I don't know if I should worry or not. Hope
> someone else here can help.
>
> First thing, yesterday I tried to shut down, but it didn't really
> turned off. The only unusual thing I can remember is that I had the
> power chord unplugged from the mains, but it was still plugged on the
> back of the laptop. I took it off, and it shutdown.
>
> Today morning I hibernated the laptop, but again, it didn't turn off,
> but stuck with a message on tty, something like "turning off
> consoles" or something. Sorry, I don't remember. Later I turned it on,
> and it didn't came up normally. I got the impression that if I hit
> some key, then it advanced a little, until everything was up, X,
> gnome, etc.
>
> When it was time to shut down, it was very, very slow. I could see
> windows disappear, then the panel... I lost my patience and switched
> to tty, and then I could see shutdown messages, one by one. I could
> confirm here that everytime I hit the space bar, one more step
> occured, until I reached the final disk sync, and the laptop turned
> off.
>
> I have the disk capacity almost fully occupied, but it has been so for a
> while, and I had never seen this. Is it possible that some disk/memory
> corruption is going on? That after the last upgrade (by the way, I'm
> running sid), last weekend, something was not configured properly?
> That some unnoticed power fluctuation damaged something physically? I
> don't really know.
>
> I haven't booted up again, and I won't be able to try again until
> tonight, but hopefully someone can give me a hint.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Victor
>
>
Are you by chance using a 2.6.21 kernel and uswsusp? I have noticed the
exact same thing with the above combination on testing. With 2.6.18
everything works perfectly.
My laptop is a ThinkPad X40.
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Marcus Libäck <marcus at terminal dot se>
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