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List:       mandrake-expert
Subject:    Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!
From:       James Sparenberg <james () opencountry ! org>
Date:       2003-11-12 18:09:19
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On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 01:16, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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

hda7 shouldn't get mounted!  http://swsusp.sourceforge.net/ is the site.
http://swsusp.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html for the FAQ and
http://swsusp.sourceforge.net/Software-suspend.html for the howto.

James




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