Resume fails after suspend post Oneiric upgrade

Bug #875375 reported by Chascon
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
Expired
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

From the Unity desktop in the corner up & right, select suspend, and it seems to reach suspend state. However, when pressing the power, a noise as if awakening from suspend occurs, but results in an anticlimactic black screen. I´m able to get into a term using cntrl+alt+FnX, but soon (a second or so in) the screen freezes in term (showing only the text based login line command prompt ) --perhaps after trying to get back to X (cntrl+alt+Fn7). Unplugging external peripheries does not interrupt the freeze. nor does replugging an external PS/2 keyboard I use with a to-USB adapter. Both the internal and external keyboards are locked out (no green light caps-lock light indicator) and sysreq commands seem useless.

I have not tried unplugging the power adapter nor the ethernet cable. Pressing the power button for 3 or 4 seconds does a hard reboot.

This was working prior to my upgrade from Natty.

Hardware
First generation (2006) Intel MacBook Pro (Intel Core Duo, aka Yonah based processor) with an ATI Mbility Radeon X1600 video card.

Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

uname -r
3.0.0-12-generic

xserver-xorg-video-ati:
  Installed: 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Chascon (chascone)
tags: added: resume
tags: added: suspend
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Chascon (chascone) wrote :

I should have added hibernate to the title, too.

tags: added: hibernate
summary: - Suspend & resume fail after upgrading to Oneiric
+ Resume fails post suspend/hibernate --after Oneiric upgrade
summary: - Resume fails post suspend/hibernate --after Oneiric upgrade
+ Resume fails after suspend/hibernate --post Oneiric upgrade
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : Re: Resume fails after suspend/hibernate --post Oneiric upgrade

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Chascon (chascone) wrote :

uname -r
3.0.0-13-generic

Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1

and the problem persists.

Is there any work on this being done?

Creating a file named "config" into /etc/pm/config.d with the following does not help.
SLEEP_MODULE="uswsusp"
S2RAM_OPTS="-f -a 3"

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Chascon (chascone) wrote :

Or is has Ubuntu entirely moved away from the laptop market and fully moved into the tablet medium (where I hear that suspend and hibernate is being looked at as a thing of the past)?

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Chascon (chascone) wrote :

Good news.
I decided to try suspend/hiberate today on a whim (just once). Apparently, there is only one option now, just suspend. Anyway, I didn't expect it to work, but my upgrade o Precise has suspend working, at least with 3.2.0-23-generic. The upgrade is still a beta, but hopefully this sticks, and all the kernels get this capability.

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Agoston Horvath (horvath-agoston) wrote :

I had a similar issue, maybe you want to look at
http://techieblurbs.blogspot.com/2012/05/suspend-freeze-on-macbookpro-82-and.html
see it if helps!

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Chascon (chascone) wrote :

Thanks Agoston.

I may try that in the future if need be, but I recently tried suspending, apparently the only form of sleep available now (previous versions allowed two forms), and to my surprise it worked on Precise (testing). I haven't tried it since Precise has gone stable, though. The transition was a little slow and noisy, but I'm not complaining.

I will have to try it again, and if it works on Precise stable I'll change the status to fixed, since it's my bug report.

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Chascon (chascone) wrote :

Agoston: It's good to know about the peculiarities of our software, when things go awry. Thanks again.

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Chascon (chascone) wrote :

I see the article you linked says "b43 wireless driver..". So you're referring to my pet peeve of a "lousy" supported wireless card by a company called Broadcom. After having one on my iBook running Debian, I won't ever again buy a laptop having a product of theirs. So no, the MacBook Pro mentioned in this report does not have a card of theirs.

I think my card is an Atheros because the wikipedia specs say AR5007 chipset (and it worked out of the box). Broadcom models start with BCM. I imagine you're using a proprietary driver and so it doesn't surprise me that an issue this this would crop up. Regardless, your solution is Broadcom specific, so it doesn't apply to this bug report. Thanks for mentioning it, though.

bugbot (bugbot)
tags: added: oneiric
penalvch (penalvch)
no longer affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

Chascon, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-video-ati REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
penalvch (penalvch)
affects: hibernated → xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
importance: Undecided → Low
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Chascon (chascone) wrote :

Both states last I recall worked on the latest release. I'm testing trusty right now but both states aren't accessible via synapse presently. I don't know if they will but expect it to be so. I'll try to dig around for the line commands ...

penalvch (penalvch)
summary: - Resume fails after suspend/hibernate --post Oneiric upgrade
+ Resume fails after suspend post Oneiric upgrade
description: updated
tags: added: needs-apport-collect
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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