Re: Suspend stopped working on T60

[Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 02:22:07AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > password, there was a message from Gnome Power Manager saying that there
> > was a suspend problem, and pointing to a link for more info.
> 
> This message is indeed 100% useless and terribly frustrating: it gives the
> impression that the link will contain actual info, but all it says is
> equivalent to "it didn't work because it didn't work".
> 
> If you post the "relevant" part of the log (e.g. the screens worth of
> networking stuff), maybe you'll get more info.
> 
> In the mean time, try to install the `hibernate' package.  And then use the
> `hibernate' command rather than the gnome power manager.  This may give you
> better clues.

In fact, I had installed hibernate; gnome power manager calls this
command to do the suspend.

It turned out that I had had a typo in my hibernate.conf file
(I had added something to try to help with a network problem
after suspending), so when gnome power manager called
hibernate, it effectively died with a syntax error, without
logging this anywhere that I can see. When I learned that it's
hibernate that g-p-m is calling, I called it from the command
line, saw the error, and fixed the problem, and now I'm back
with a working suspend.

Thanks, and thanks to the linux-thinkpad list, which pointed me
in the right direction.

Jesse Sheidlower