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Thinkpad R60 Hibernate

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Problem I’m running Thinkpad R60 with Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10). Since everything else seems to work — internet, great fonts, disconnect on call, MATLAB, amsn, and suspend to RAM — why not hibernate? But when it hibernates… it doesn’t. The system doesn’t hibernate/hibernates but immediately comes back up/hibernates and I don’t know how to resume!

Solution (Welcome back Rip Van Winkle.)

  • What is resume?
    “Resume” from hibernate occurs when the system system boots. The system is powered on, grub shows up, the kernel that was sent into hibernation is selected, and if things go well, the kernel detects the old state information in the swap partition and gets you back where you left off.
  • How do you set it up?

    A swap partition sufficient to contain the virtual memory image currently used by the system (after syncing) is required to save system state. A swap file may be created if swap partition/file was not created during system install.
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