JD wrote:
> My laptop has ceased hibernating.
> When I click on f=>Leave=>Hibernate
> the sleep-moon starts flashing
> and the small hyphen-like symbol on the top left comes on as usual,
> but as far as I can see nothing is written to disk.
>
> At this point it becomes impossible to communicate with the machine.
...
> I wonder if anyone has had the same problem?
> And if so, whether there is a solution?
>
> I'm running the current kernel,
> but I tried the last 2 kernels without effect.
>
If by current kernel you mean kernel-2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686
then I already tested the hibernation and it works - i.e. it does
hibernate the machine.
Yes, I am running kernel-2.6.33.8-149.fc13.i686 .
But I probably did not express myself properly;
I also tried the previous 2 kernels,
and had the same hibernation problem with both,
from which I deduce that the problem has nothing to do with the kernel.
Actually I only have this problem on one Thinkpad T43 laptop;
hibernation works perfectly on a second T43.
I suppose my main difficulty is that I don't know
how I can find out what is going on in the laptop
at the moment of failure,
since the only way I can see to bring the machine back to life
is to press the power-button, and then re-boot.
There doesn't seem to be anything odd in /var/log/messages
after this to explain the problem.
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