Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I've been trying to figure out why one of my laptops just damn
> refuses to hibernate. It starts the hibernation process, turns off
> X, begins shrinking memory, turning things off -- then boom! it
> drops back into X, reconnects to wireless, and just keeps on
> chugging. Without really showing any informative error message.
>
> I finally found the clue in /var/log/messages:
>
> Apr 11 23:57:55 lc2440 kernel: swsusp: Not enough free swap
> Apr 11 23:57:55 lc2440 kernel: Restarting tasks … done.
> Apr 11 23:57:55 lc2440 kernel: Enabling non-boot CPUs …
>
> So, it can't fit the contents of RAM into swap.
>
> This laptop has 2GB of ram. I've partitioned the drive with a 512MB
> swap.
>
> Now, I don't really feel like blowing 2GB of my laptop's hard drive
> on an essentially useless swap partition. Besides, it's a bit too
> late for me to repartition.
If you're using LVM you can resize things that way if you really
wanted to (though I don't think you do :).
> Do I have any other ways to get hibernation working?
What about using a swap file instead?
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