[ltp] Crash on resume

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

I don't know if this might be the source of your problem.  It's
certainly of interest to Thinkpad owners in general:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.0/1040.html

Bret

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 11:44, 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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