On 13.12.2019 23:44, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running LMDE3 (based on Debian oldstable) on Thinkpad Edge E130. > I'm not getting much support lately from the Mint forums and that's > why I'm posting here. > > This laptop had been running happily with a mere 4GB RAM and no swap > until a few weeks ago, when I had to compile a big programme (Liferea) > and the compiler complained that it was running out of virtual memory. > > So I made a 8GB partition and formatted it as swap. This is where all > problems started. Since then, suspend to ram has stopped working as it > was (the laptop resumes spontaneously overnight without any > interactions; the battery drains and the laptop shuts down, creating > filesystem corruption). > > Hibernate doesn't work either. When I open the lid, instead of > resuming from disk, the laptop just reboots, and, from dmesg I can see > that it wasn't shut down properly. > > This is giving me headaches, as you can imagine. If I manually disable > swap (sudo swapoff -a), all goes back to normal and suspend works > beautifully. > > At the moment, the only workaround is to disable swap before suspending. > > I have the latest kernel. Where do I start troubleshooting? Any ideas? > Best way is to start here. [1] Dealing with powerstates\hibernation could be complicated, because it depends on many factors. Simple swap partition creation is not enough for hibernation to work, it also has to be configured in initrd. [2]
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/power/basic-pm-debugging.html [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation#Changing_or_moving_the_swap_partition -- With kindest regards, Alexander. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
