On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 08:00 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote: > --- Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > Best, > Trotter > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
