[ltp] Crash on resume

[Mark Beierl]

I hate to say it, but I had the same problem and never figured out what 
it was - worst part is that it did get worse (more frequent).  I 
switched to RH 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18-3) and miraculously I have not had 
that problem since.  All the best!

Regards,
Mark Beierl

Richard Neill wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I wonder if anyone can help with this. I'm using an A22p, with 
> Mandrake 8.2 I have it set to suspend (to RAM, not hibernate) after 
> about 45 minutes. (The Xscreensaver package usually kicks in first 
> after 20 min).
>
> However, one time in 5 (or so), the machine won't wake from suspend. I 
> press the "Fn" key, and the cdrom "gronks", the display comes back on, 
> showing a distorted image of what was there before suspend, and it 
> then freezes. The HDD doesn't spin up, and the keyboard is not 
> responsive (except for some bios things like Fn-PgUp for the 
> thinklight and screen brightness etc). I have to kill it with the 
> power switch.
>
> This used to happen about once a month, but it now seems much more 
> frequent - every few days (and of course, this is when I most need 
> stablility to write my thesis!) Any ideas what's happening?
>
> 1)What might be causing the problem? I have a few ideas - maybe these 
> are all spurious:
>
>     - 1) The HDD has a fault - something causes it not to spin back
>         up
>
>     - 2) It's not really a linux crash, but a hard-lock-up of X ?
>     (I'm using XF86-4.20)
>
>     - 3) Modem Driver (Lucent)
>
>     -4) Some application is trying to use the network which it can't
>      access. (Mozilla?) [I have had the problem whether I use no
>     network, dhcp network or 'regular' network]
>
>     -5) Xscreensaver package - some of the screensavers (OpenGL
>      ones??) which normally work fine may crash on suspend/resume?
>
>     -6) IBM BIOS is at fault
>
> 2)Is there anything I can do to log where it goes wrong? It's an 
> intermittent fault - I can't reproduce it at will
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Richard
>
>
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