F8: Thinkpad T61 wakes up at random after hibernating

[Matthew Saltzman]

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.

> 
> Best,
> Trotter
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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