[mythtv-users] Problem with suspend to ram (s3)
G L
glafranceweb at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 23 05:42:54 UTC 2008
Hello,
I originally posted about my problem on the Ubuntu forums (
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=673729 ). Having received
not a single reply, I decided to give it a shot here, since it's a very friendly place ( BTW thanks John for your help with my remote control problem, you're awesome :) ). Also, I've been googling for 2 evenings now and I cannot find any clear solution to this.
Please tell me if this is too much off-topic for this list, I won't
feel offended or anything. :)
I was going to try the linux-acpi mailing list first... but I got the
impression that it was more of a "dev" mailing list.
First, here's what I'm using:
Mythbuntu 7.10 Gutsy
Biostar TF7050-M2 motherboard (with latest BIOS)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Brisbane
Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA2
2 GB RAM
When I suspend (S3), it seems to work okay. Computer goes to sleep and
I don't hear any fans or the hard drive, and the screen goes blank.
When I resume, it *seems* wake up okay, until, I think, it tries to
wake up the hard drive. Then all I get on the screen are errors like
these:
Code:
ata1 soft reset failed
ata1 COMRESET failed
device sda5 XFS metadata write error block <bunch of numbers>
Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block <some number>
Remounting filesystem read-onlyAll I see are error messages like above
scrolling... it doesn't seem to stop until I poweroff the computer,
wait a few seconds, then poweron and it boots normally.
Seems to me that the computer is unable to wake up the hard drive from
its beauty sleep. :-/
I enabled/uncommented the following two lines in
"/etc/default/acpi-support":
DISABLE_DMA=true
RESET_DRIVE=true
...but the problem persists.
Do I need to modify something else in the acpi-support file?
Then I tried to follow the instructions on this page (
http://zechs.dyndns.org/wordpress/?p=234 ) to get s2both and s2disk to
work.
When I tried Suspend, nothing seemed to happen at first. I was still
seeing the desktop environment on the screen, the mouse cursor was still
moving. I could still click on buttons and icons, however it would have
no effect. No program would start.
So I rebooted.
What followed is one of the worst hard drive problem I've ever saw! It
said that /dev/sda1 has way too many errors and that it'll only mount
read-only so that I can run fsck manually. Then it gave me a root shell
prompt.
I ran fsck, there were many many inode and block errors about this and
that. I was feeling pretty bummed out so I just answer 'y' when it
would ask me if I wanted to fix the problem.
The computer then rebooted again, and everything seemed to run
normally. I tried all different programs and things (to see if any important
files had been damaged), but everything looks okay. (Phew?)
I still can't seem to get suspend to work though... which is a pain because I want to make the computer suspend to ram when I press the power button of my remote. :-|
Guillaume
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