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I have Ubuntu Lucid installed on a Panasonic Toughbook CF-29. Most things work well, but, under Gnome, suspend and hibernate do not work. Interestingly, in Xubuntu, hibernate does work. So my question is twofold:

1) How do I troubleshoot the hibernate function in Gnome desktop (since I know the laptop can hibernate in Ubuntu), and

2) How to go about troubleshooting the suspend function? I got as far as looking at the /var/log/pm-suspend.log, but that just tells me the things that ran successfully... I'm kind of stuck there.

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Some tips are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspendHibernateResume

Fails to suspend/hibernate

$ dmesg|less

There is usually an entry what application caused the suspension to fail:

[32467.560058] Freezing of tasks failed after 20.01 seconds (1 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=0):
[32467.560115] plasma-desktop D 0000000000000000 0 2065 1 0x00800004
...

The stack trace often tells you where the problem might lie:

[32467.560155] [<ffffffff81087f00>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
[32467.560163] [<ffffffffa016e523>] SendReceive+0x1a3/0x3b0 [cifs]
[32467.560169] [<ffffffffa0153c79>] CIFSSMBUnixQPathInfo+0x139/0x2b0 [cifs]
[32467.560176] [<ffffffffa016853d>] cifs_get_inode_info_unix+0x7d/0x1a0

Fail to resume

Make sure the swap partition is correctly set, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq

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Great link - I hadn't actually seen that one yet. AFAIC, this answer is the best answer to date to my question ("how to troubleshoot"...) so I'm awarding the bounty here. – Aerik Sep 13 '11 at 16:25
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I used to have Ubuntu hibernation issue on laptop as well as desktops. Then I read somewhere, and which made sense, was that the swap space must be big enough to store the current memory contents. So a good rule of thumb is to have a swap space slightly bigger than the physical memory the laptop has.

So I used 1.6GB of swap for 1GB memory in the next Ubuntu release installation (I am now on Ubuntu 10.04) and I can hibernate the laptop without any issue.

Another way to make it work is to use swap file and not swap partition. Below link has more details:

Hybernate without partition

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Apparently Ubuntu has a problem with suspend and hibernate on laptops.

See this Ubuntu Forums HowTo : Fix suspend and hibernate on laptops.
This article has many comments that might be worthwhile reading.

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Hmm... I've looked at a bunch of stuff like this. Mostly what I've seen are "shotgun" solutions (like "try uswsusp"). My question is really more "how to troubleshoot". I'm looking for a linux guru who is familiar with these components in the different variants of Ubuntu to give some pointers as to how to figure it out, not just go down a long list of things to try to see if they work. – Aerik Sep 8 '11 at 19:39
As the problem seems to be localized to the Ubuntu distribution and only on laptops, you might be better asking it in their forums. As a last note, the following threads contain lots of pointers and info : Troubleshooting suspend and hibernate and How to troubleshoot Suspend/Hibernate in Ubuntu 10.10. – harrymc Sep 8 '11 at 20:42
funny - it worked fine for me on my netbook :) – warren Sep 12 '11 at 21:42
@warren: Apparently, the problem is not for all models. – harrymc Sep 13 '11 at 4:49
@harrymc - thanks for the tips and links – Aerik Sep 13 '11 at 16:21
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