Xserver failure after suspend to RAM

Tino Keitel tino.keitel+xorg at tikei.de
Tue Jan 29 05:16:37 PST 2008


On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 22:12:00 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:18:57 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:16:52 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Hum, I recently started to use vbetool to restore the VBE state after
> > > resume, otherwise the text console stays blank after resume. Maybe this
> > > is connected. I see that there is also an "VbetoolPost" option in the
> > > hibernate script, that isn't enabled. I'll enable it to see if it
> > > helps.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just was able to resume 4 times without a crash. This was not just in
> > a row, but with some work between the suspend/resume cycles. So it
> > seems to be stable now, I home it stays that way.
> 
> I just had a server crash again after resume. I now disabled the vbe
> stuff completely and hope that the crash goes away.

For the records:

After more than one week without using vbetool after resume, I never
got that server failure again. So it seems like that quirk can also do
harm to suspend/resume reliability.

Regards,
Tino



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