Bug#559202: squeeze: freeze on shutdown, hibernate, suspend

[dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 07:28:28PM +0100, Florian Marienfeld wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6-686
> Version: 2.6.30+21
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I run squeeze on an acer travelmate 4002. shutdown, hibernate, and suspend don't work.
> 
> Shutdown says "will now halt" and spins down the disk, but then "task halt was blocked for more than 120 seconds".
> 
> For suspend/hibernate pm-suspend.log ends with "performing suspend"/"performing hibernate" but the screen never powers down. when hibernating I can still move to ttys but not type into them, switching to tty7 freezes the system. suspend freezes right away. the only way out is a hard shutdown in either case.
> 
> This is probably a kernel issue (2.6.30) as Ubuntu on the same machine started behaving the same way after upgrading the kernel from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31.
> 
> Following a hint I tried giving grub the kernel parameter pci=nomsi. no effect.
> I also compiled a vanilla 2.6.31 kernel. no effect.

Please test the 2.6.32-rc8 in sid and let us know the results.

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dann frazier