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Bug#548259: base: PowerBook G3 Pismo intermittently fails to sleep



On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:31 -0600, Solra Bizna wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: important
> 
> I'm on a PowerBook G3 Pismo. A while back, it was running Gentoo and 
> slept fine. Then, I switched from sysvinit to initng, and it failed to 
> sleep every single time. Now, after switching to Debian, it successfully 
> sleeps 90% of the time, hangs 9% of the time, and spews debugging 
> information and re-awakens 1% of the time. (When the lattermost happens 
> once, it becomes the only outcome of an attempted sleep that will happen 
> until I restart.)
> 
> Example (long) output from the 1% case:
> http://wotan.tejat.net/private/public/trace.txt
> 
> Also, media-bay is unkillable.
> 
> I'll keep the computer in the 1% case (without restarting), just in case 
> I can gather any more useful information.

It looks like a Firewire bus scan was running during the attempt to
suspend, and this took so long that the suspend process was aborted.  Do
you sometimes unplug a Firewire device immediately before suspending?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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