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List:       mandrake-expert
Subject:    Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!
From:       Anne Wilson <cannewilson () tiscali ! co ! uk>
Date:       2003-11-12 9:16:04
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On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 7:32 am, Mofeed Shahin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 12:23 am, Mof wrote:
> >> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:47 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:43, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> > > On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> >> > > > With the extra information of not attempting resume
> >> > > > allowing it
> >>
> >> to boot, I'll wager that your swap contains a corrupted system
> >> image and is unusable as swap. free will show you no swap
> >> available. swapoff, format /dev/hda5, swapon.
> >>
> >> > > If you are right about swap containing a corrupted imate,
> >> > > what can
> >>
> >> he do about it?
> >>
> >> > swapoff /dev/hdaX mkdswap /dev/hdaX (your swap partition)
> >> > swapon
> >>
> >> /dev/hdaX   Then create a second swap partion about 10-20%
> >> larger than ram and use it for suspend not the normal swap.
> >>
> >> I looked at free, and all the swap was free, but  I formated it
> >> anyway to make sure. (I did format both swap partitions to be
> >> sure as well) It still hangs when the lid is closed.
> >
> > Did you make the second swap, as James suggested?
>
> Yes, I now have 2 swap partitions.
> /dev/hda5 which is 768M
> /dev/hda7 which is 1G
>
> /dev/hda5 is my real swap partition.
>
OK.  Now have you checked that the suspend is now trying for hda7?  
And (sorry if this is insulting, it's not meant to be, but we all 
forget the obvious sometimes) there is a mount statement for hda7 in 
fstab and it's currently mounted?

Anne
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