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On Hibernate (i.e. KDE Kickoff - Leave - Hibernate), I immediately get a black screen with those two lines: PM: Syncing file systems ... Freezing user space processes ...

A few seconds later, the screen turns black, but instead of hibernating, the session is locked. When I move the mouse, I can enter my password and I'm back where I started. Only the NIC seems to be temporarily deactivated.

OS: Fedora 15 uname -r: 2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 MB: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX

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Do you have a working swap partition? (Post the output of cat /proc/swaps if you're not sure.) – Patches Oct 19 '11 at 8:45
Yes, I have a 5 GB swap partition. – basic6 Oct 19 '11 at 15:14
Try the debugging steps listed here and let us know if they work or fail. – Patches Oct 19 '11 at 16:40
Upgraded to Fedora 16 (all updates installed), same issue. From your link: Neither one of those first two commands (echo reboot > /sys/power/disk...) hibernate my system. I can't be the only one having this problem...? – basic6 Nov 26 '11 at 12:54
In that case, I would file a bug against the kernel. Include all the details you can from the debugging steps you performed and complete information about your hardware. (An easy way to provide a hardware profile is to run smoltSendProfile and provide the link it outputs in your bug.) – Patches Nov 27 '11 at 1:33
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Check your computers BIOS setup, - some have an option to set the suspend-level to either standby or hibernate.

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