[ltp] T61 dies with a blinking A while going to sleep

[Andreas Siegert]

Ok,

just for feedback, unloading the VBox 4.1 kernel modules leads to a
peaceful sleep.

cheers
afx


On 27.07.2011 17:38, Wolfgang Karall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 03:48:02PM +0200, Andreas Siegert wrote:
>> Everything was fine and dandy until some time last week it started to
>> refuse to go to sleep.
> [..]
>> I did not install anything new at system level, but of course applied all
>> updates that came in via Canonical, But I do not remember anything that
>> would make me think of having an impact on suspend to ram....
> 
> Do you happen to use Virtualbox and upgraded to the Oracle-supplied
> virtualbox-4.1 packages? Because (or rather, the Virtualbox-related
> kernel modules) seem to mess with S3 on my x61s (running Debian sid). I
> didn't have time to investigate, but going back to virtualbox-4.0 fixed
> the S3 issue.
> 
> Cheers
> Wolfgang


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