F8: Thinkpad T61 wakes up at random after hibernating

[Globe Trotter]

--- Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 08:00 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
> > --- Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 21:15 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
> > > > So, I have been having this same problem (not always, but very
> frequently),
> > > > ever since I upgraded to 2.6.24 kernels (all three released so far).
> > > > 
> > > > I put my trusty Thinkpad T61 on pm-hibernate, and it goes down
> peacefully:
> > > > however, within a second after everything shutting down, all lights
> off, it
> > > > revvs up and starts all over again. Regardless of whether the lid is
> closed
> > > or
> > > > open. 
> > > > 
> > > > This does not happen always. 
> > > > 
> > > > Any suggestions?
> > > 
> > > Hibernate?  First I've heard of it (but I haven't tried to hibernate
> > > recently--it wasn't resuming with the nVidia driver).  The current state
> > > of spontaneous-resume-after-suspend-to-RAM is here:
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=254214.
> > > 
> > 
> > thanks, matthew and frank! Not having used pm-suspend for a while, I tried
> it,
> > and it went down fine, but did not wake up properly. (I guess, you could
> say in
> > a coma?:-) but it came back with a black screen and a dash blinking
> cursor.)
> > Had to hard-shutdown a la Windoze (I am told). 
> 
> You may have to worry about "quirks":
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-suspend-index.html
> > 
> > But my reference is to pm-hibernate. I tried it three times this morning,
> and
> > it went down fine twice. But woke up a second later the third time. I tried
> > shutting down firefox the first times, and left it on at
> www.washingtonpost.com
> > the third time. It may be firefox, it may be java, but the problem is so
> random
> > (Bernoulli distributed with p > 0.75) that it is hard to tell.
> 
> The takeaway from the BZ ticket ref above is that this may not be a
> question of applications running, but rather drivers.  Some similar fix
> to the one in BZ might help you.

Thanks, and you are probably right. Btw, I do not have an nvidia, but an Intel 
GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller. 

It does seem strange that this entire crop of wake-up-at-random cropped up only
after upgrades to 2.6.24.

Trotter


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