On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 08:00 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
> --- Matthew Saltzman <mjs(a)clemson.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 21:15 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
> > > So, I have been having this same problem (not always, but very
frequently),
> > > ever since I upgraded to 2.6.24 kernels (all three released so far).
> > >
> > > I put my trusty Thinkpad T61 on pm-hibernate, and it goes down
peacefully:
> > > however, within a second after everything shutting down, all lights
off, it
> > > revvs up and starts all over again. Regardless of whether the lid is
closed
> > or
> > > open.
> > >
> > > This does not happen always.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Hibernate? First I've heard of it (but I haven't tried to hibernate
> > recently--it wasn't resuming with the nVidia driver). The current state
> > of spontaneous-resume-after-suspend-to-RAM is here:
> >
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=254214.
> >
>
> thanks, matthew and frank! Not having used pm-suspend for a while, I tried
it,
> and it went down fine, but did not wake up properly. (I guess, you could
say in
> a coma?:-) but it came back with a black screen and a dash blinking
cursor.)
> Had to hard-shutdown a la Windoze (I am told).
You may have to worry about "quirks":
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-suspend-index.html
>
> But my reference is to pm-hibernate. I tried it three times this morning,
and
> it went down fine twice. But woke up a second later the third time. I tried
> shutting down firefox the first times, and left it on at
www.washingtonpost.com
> the third time. It may be firefox, it may be java, but the problem is so
random
> (Bernoulli distributed with p > 0.75) that it is hard to tell.
The takeaway from the BZ ticket ref above is that this may not be a
question of applications running, but rather drivers. Some similar fix
to the one in BZ might help you.
Thanks, and you are probably right. Btw, I do not have an nvidia, but an Intel
GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller.
It does seem strange that this entire crop of wake-up-at-random cropped up only
after upgrades to 2.6.24.
Trotter
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