S3 Wake Fails With FC5 2.6.17 Kernels

[Gilbert Sebenste]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Chris Jones wrote:

>
>> The sleep error has been reported and is widely known. It was fixed in
>> kernel.org release 2.6.17.7. Fedora kernel developers are waiting for
>> 2.6.17.8 to be released, reportedly "very soon"...because 2.6.17 has bad
>> memory leaks in addition to numerous bugs that will be fixed in 2.6.17.8.
>> I am restless myself for this new kernel, but I'm just gonna have to
>> patiently wait...
>
> I have also been having problems with the FC5 2.6.17 kernels. suspend-to-disk
> sleep (s4) goes to sleep ok, but on resuming the kernel hangs at
> the "resuming from /dev/hda9" message. Nothing I can do but hard reset.
> suspend to memory, S3 seems OK. Both worked fine wit the 2.6.16 kernels.
>
> Could this be related to your problem, and also fixed in 2.6.17.8 ?

Yep, and yes, memory leakage is bad in this kernel. It is mostly fixed in 
2.6.17.7, but I think there's more coming in 2.6.17.8 that they want to 
wait for.

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