Thanks Mike.

It didn't even occur to me that I could use the LED blinker like that!

I'm going to have to give this a shot.

On 3 May 2018 16:43:09 BST, Mike Larkin <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 09:56:52AM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:40:31AM +0000, Edd Barrett wrote:
>> > For the month or so I've had it (usually updating my snapshot every
>week
>> > or so) suspend has been a bit flaky. Often it does zzz and wake
>fine,
>> > but occasionally (say 1 time out of 5), something goes wrong.
>Either:
>> 
>> Sorry to dig up an old thread. Just wanted to mention that my 5th
>> generation X1 is still frequently failing to wake from suspend on
>newer
>> snapshots.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> -- 
>> Best Regards
>> Edd Barrett
>> 
>> http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk
>> 
>
>You can help diagnose this yourself.
>
>If the machine has a visual indicator of sleeping/waking (like a
>blinking led),
>move the SST_WAKING acpi_indicator calls around in the resume path so
>you
>can see where it's getting stuck.
>
>If you get to the point that it's resuming devices and can't figure out
>which
>device is broken, you can turn a "hang" into a "reset" by placing calls
>to
>cpu_reset in various places, to let you know where it gets to. If it
>resets,
>you know you got that far and can move the reset to later devices. that
>way
>you can narrow down the area where it's hanging.
>
>You can also use the vPro serial-over-lan and output messages there if
>your
>machine supports that.
>
>These sorts of techniques are what I used when diagnosing things when
>we were
>first implementing suspend and hibernate, when the console is
>nonresponsive or
>black or unavailable.
>
>-ml

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