Comments on: Resume from Hibernate Failed on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

By: ulosone

ulosone — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:38:26 +0000

No luck here ether!!
both my laptop and desktop can’t hibernate
Laptop: Dell XPS 1530m
OS: windows7/Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome-desktop-environment

Tried all the above mentioned steps from the main article.

desktop:custom i7:2600 with GB z68 chipset
OS: windows7/Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome-desktop-environment
with little more complication!
I have 5x8Gb swap partition.
So don’t know which one to chose!
$swapon -s
“Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda11 partition 8302588 0 -1
/dev/sda6 partition 8302588 0 -2
/dev/sda7 partition 8303612 0 -3
/dev/sda8 partition 8303612 0 -4
/dev/sda9 partition 8303612 0 -5
“

By: nik

nik — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:56:48 +0000

Hi,

Successfully followed steps 1-9, but ran into an error after trying to update initramfs.

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“update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-02063808-generic Warning: No support for locale: en_US.utf8″
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I thought this might be an issue regarding the fact that I have multiple kernels installed, so I used the -u -k flags to specify the kernel I am running on (no luck).

Any ideas?

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:36:09 +0000

After restoring a clonezilla image of my Kubuntu 11.10 installation, resume from hibernate was not working. The steps listed here worked perfectly, just had to add a swapoff -a before step 2.

By: Benoit Misonne

Benoit Misonne — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:45:12 +0000

I have the same problem on Ubuntu 11.10 64bits for an Asus EeePc 1215B.
The solution work perfectly.
Thank you.

By: werner

werner — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:24:15 +0000

I am on Xubuntu 11.10 on a Sony Vaio and unfortunately the above steps don’t work for me.

Tried it a few times and did also make sure to reboot after change before trying to suspend/hibernate.

Suspend seems to work fine, but on resume I get a full boot, i.e. Vaio logo is shown and then the Grub2 menu.

Just FYI
Werner

By: Pac

Pac — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:36:58 +0000

I ve got the same issue (almost).

I ve just solved it, perhaps it can help. :

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When i try “mkswap /dev/sda4″ (step 2) it return “device or resource busy”

/dev/sda4 do not appear anywhere (blkid, …)
With gparted, I can’t format directly, partition is marked as “unknown”
I can delete the partition, then reboot, then format it to swap.

—Do not follow this steps, just for explanation———–
At this point, if I reboot and try to hibernate, it do not resume.
(“option-instat-callback : error-2″ during hibernation, as previously)
Going back to Gparted, partion is marked as “unknown” !

Again : delete, reboot, format as swap, but don’t try to hibernate
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“mkswap /dev/sda4″ (step 2) suceed !

step 3 succeed : in fstab I replace old by new UUID

step 4 : the file /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume do not exist.
I create it and fill it with “RESUME=UUID=’my new uuid’”

step 5, 6, 7 : /dev/disk/by-uuid contain already my new UUID, let it like this.
(Probably done by Gparted ?)

Step 8 : success

step 9 : quite long, but succesfull

Hibernate option have disappeared ! I reboot and it come back.

Try to hibernate, resume… YES !!!

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Thank you very much for this guide.
Sorry for my poor english writing.

Pac

By: Disha

Disha — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:49:16 +0000

I tried all the steps and also did the reboot as Ben suggested before trying hibernate/sleep, but the issue persists. Any inputs? It still powers on like I shut it down when I try to resume it.

By: Pius Frei

Pius Frei — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:32:27 +0000

@Jacob: I am experiencing the same problem with the “device or resource busy” message.

When I try to apply your recommendation to turn off swap, I get a message “swapoff: /dev/sda1: swapoff failed: Invalid argument”.

I also noticed that in etc/initramfs-tools/config.d, I do not have a resume file.

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:39:04 +0000

Try before “sudo swapoff /dev/sda6″.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:43:53 +0000

on step 2, when I try “sudo mksawp /dev/sda6″ (/dev/sda6 is my partition) it says: “/dev/sda6: device or resource busy”. Any ideas?. Thanks