Re: System cannot come back from suspend (Fedora 9)

Stefan Patric <not@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had written:
|
| Since you did "turn off" your machine, I had to ask. If your system had
| booted normally instead of hanging, it would have probably done a fsck
| anyway. But it never hurts to be thorough.

As it turns out, the system, when booted with the 2.6.26.5-45
kernel, continues to be flaky. Sometimes it can boot up and then
just freezes in the middle of something; other times, it doesn't
even complete the boot sequence.

I have now run fsck on all disks. They consistently come up clean
other than a "Superblock last mount time is in the future" message.
I've done mkswap on the swap partition.

| > If there were dependencies, rpm -e wouldn't have let me uninstall the
| > kernel, right? (At least not without --force, which I didn't use.)
| > Normally, I do use yum. But there are a few instances for which it is
| > still good to know and use rpm.
|
| That's not my understanding of how rpm works: you rpm -e some package
| and it removes everything that was in the original installed package.

As it turns out on that point, you were correct and I was wrong. (I
did a little experimenting on a package that I don't care about.)
So it's possible that I nailed something in the kernel, though I'd
be surprised given that the kernel always installs as a new
install. Trying it again with
'yum erase kernel-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686' finds no dependencies. But
I have removed it and re-installed it on the outside chance
that it will make a difference.

Interesting warning message with those steps:
"resolveDevice: device spec expected". It did not prevent the
installation from completing.

The one new clue that I have is in /var/log/pm-suspend.log -- where
the original suspend operation is shown as "Save video state
failed". That may be the root cause of the problem, but I think it's
gone way beyond that point now considering all the other flakiness that
I'm seeing when using this kernel.


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